Picasso’s reflections on science and art on stage at the PCB Blog Post

One night back in 1950, a group of friends attended a private party in a flat at Birkbeck College in London. The get-together, however, would have merited no more than a footnote, were it not for the fact that the gathering’s host was the crystallographer John D. Bernal and one of the guests was Pablo Picasso. The two men’s conversations and the drawings made by the artist during the evening can be experienced on 14 March at 5.00 pm in the Fèlix Serratosa Conference Room at the PCB. The event, which is free of charge, will offer up the men’s reflections on life and the interconnections between scientific method and artistic inspiration.

The Genomics and Proteomics Network Annual Conference at the PCB Blog Post

On Friday 30 June, the Antoni Caparrós Auditorium at the PCB will host the annual conference, entitled “Perspectives in Proteomics”, of the Genomics and Proteomics Network of Catalonia. During this event, experts from Catalonia and abroad will present the latest techniques developed in this field and also the results of several teams working in this line of research.

Discovery of a protein activity that suppresses the growth of malignant tumors in colorectal cancer Blog Post

A study on the development of colorectal cancer shows for the first time that the activity of several receptors of the Eph family, responsible for the regulation of intestinal epithelium structure, prevents the further expansion and malignant progression of benign lesions. The results from this study, performed by researchers at the Institute of Biomedical Research (IRB-PCB) of the Parc Científic de Barcelona (PCB, Barcelona Science Park) and the Netherlands Institute for Developmental Biology (NIOB), have been published in the scientific journal Nature.