Human aldehyde dehydrogenase 1A3 (ALDH1A3) is an enzyme that binds ATP, as well as a biomarker of tumor-initiating cells responsible for resistance to chemotherapy. According to a study by the UAB Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in collaboration with the ALBA Synchrotron, their silencing restores the sensitivity of tumor cells to chemotherapeutic agents.
The 4th edition of this science educational project launched by the ALBA Synchrotron has concluded with the end of the school year. Now, ALBA Mission opens registration for the next academic year 22-23. Primary school teachers can sign up their groups of 10-12 years old children for the fifth edition of ALBA Mission at www.misionalba.es. 500 available places are offered in order to reach more than 15,000 students from all over the country. With the experiments proposed by ALBA staff through the project webpage, kids enter into the research world and learn science related to the Synchrotron.
About 30 pharmaceutical companies visited the ALBA Synchrotron to participate in a workshop to learn the applications of synchrotron light in drug development.
Within the series of outreach videos developed in collaboration with FECYT, the ALBA Synchrotron has released two videos explaining experiments aimed at understanding the behavior of the virus that causes Covid-19 as well as possible treatments.
The ALBA Synchrotron, in collaboration with the FECYT, has made a series of five informative videos in which some examples of experiments performed with synchrotron light are reported. The first one, starring M. Rosa Palacín from ICMAB-CSIC, talks about the study of batteries.
