Finally, after two months staying at home, we are resuming our experimental work in the lab. Little by little, with extreme precaution, following all the safety rules, we trust we will start producing results that will help us advance our projects. It is only two of us going to the lab at the moment, but …
El pasado jueves 20 de febrero de 2020 se celebró la entrega de premios de la IV edición de los Premios Redacción Médica á Sanidade de Galicia. Nuestro laboratorio fue nominado en la categoría «Acción investigadora/innovadora» por la identificación de fármacos capaces de eliminar selectivamente las células envejecidas, publicada en la revista Nature Communications. Desafortunadamente …
Last October 25, our colleague Sabela Da Silva presented her thesis with the expected success. Sabela was one of the first to establish the laboratory when she joined in the 2012-2013 academic year to perform her TFM. These years were full of hard work, joys and frustrations, but all this has resulted in the formation …
We are so proud to share with you our last work published in Nature Communications. Here we identified and characterized the family of Cardiac Glycosides as a novel class of senolytic compounds. The accumulation of senescent cells is characteristic of the aging process and the development of age-related diseases. It has also been seen that …
Last Friday we had the pleasure to welcome Dr. Narita from the Cambridge Institute. He gave a talk in CIMUS (USC) about the main work in his lab studying high-order chromatin organization during senescence. After his interesting talk, we had the opportunity to learn about his work and his experience as a PhD student and …
Last week (from 9th to 12th of September) we attended the 6th International Cell Senescence Association (ICSA) Conference in Athens, Greece: The bright and the dark side of senescence As always it was a great chance to catch up with this exciting field, meet old friends, make new ones and to present our work. Sabela …
