🌹 When science blooms for #SantJordi. Our April Image of the Month, “The Rose of Sant Jordi: Desmosomal Bonds of Life” by Berta Pi Benavent (#IRBBarcelona), reveals a microscopic rose formed by desmosomal junctions anchoring epithelial cells. Happy Sant Jordi! 🐉 📖

We are excited to announce the release of the new Cancer Genome Interpreter Platform developed within the EU-funded project @cgiclinics.bsky.social. It is adapted to the clinical context and reflect the latest advancements in precision oncology. bbglab.irbbarcelona.org/2026/04/new-...

✨𝗘𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 la nueva imagen de la capilla de Torre Girona! 🔨Tras meses de obras para retirar el falso techo, muy pronto reabriremos el acceso a las visitas. ⌛En breve os mostraremos➕. 💫 #WorkinProgress #StayTuned #ComingSoon #Próximamente

Very happy to share that our paper on the influence of biological sex and smoking in the clonal landscape of the normal human bladder is out today in Nature. Kudos to all the authors and especially to @ferriol.bsky.social for coming along with me during this project's journey! 🧵Summary following ⬇️

🧪 Out in @nature.com: Smoking and biological sex shape healthy bladder tissue evolution, offering clues to #cancer risk. ✍️ #IRBBarcelona & University of Washington ➡️ bit.ly/42wcIN5 📌 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09521-x #IRBScience #CancerResearch #BladderCancer @bbglab.bsky.social 🧵👇

As we are quite new in that network, we take the chance to share our research achievements of the last year. Here you can follow a short 🧵of our latest publications: 1️⃣ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

En memoria de Joan Guinovart, por Francesc Posas, Raúl Mendez y Margarida Corominas en nombre del @irbbarcelona.org del Que fue fundador. DEP elpais.com/espana/catal...

OpenVariant: a toolkit to parse and operate multiple input file formats https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bioinformatics/btae714/7914924 🧬🖥️🧪 https://github.com/bbglab/openvariant

OpenVariant: a toolkit to parse and operate multiple input file formats. #Genomics #VariantFormats #InputFileFormats #Bioinformatics 🧬 🖥️ Github; github.com/bbglab/openv... academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

🎉 I'm thrilled to announce that OpenVariant is finally published! A comprehensive toolkit to facilitate reading, parsing and refinement of diverse input file formats in a customizable structure, all within a single process. @bbglab.bsky.social at @irbbarcelona.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/bioi...