How could cell waste help slow the progression of cancer?

Lucas Pontel and Hernán Reingruber. Researchers at IBioBA study how the accumulation of toxic molecules in normal and tumor cells influence their behavior, function and survival. You can find this story published in the website of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) (in Spanish) Members of the ‘Cancer Metabolism’ group Lucas Pontel, associate researcher…

¿How do the body and cells react to stress?

Ludmila Budziñski, PhD Fellow at IBioBA, studies which are the mechanisms that activate under stress at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany. When an organism undergoes a stressful situation, a series of processes activate in tissues, cells and molecules in order to mitigate the impact of stress. The body seeks to reestablish…