Her Majesty the Queen of Spain visits the PRBB. This story opens the 52nd edition of Ellipse, the monthly newspaper of the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB). Also, find out about the core facilities coalition that supports research at the park. Matthieu Louis, from the Centre for Genomic regulation (CRG), tells us about his research into Drosophila neuroscience, and Anna Bigas (IMIM-Hospital del Mar Research Institute) explains her life as a scientist. Other news include the repositioning of drugs for rare diseases; improving the value of preleukaemia prognosis, the health cost of swine flu; the recent origin of North Africans; or understanding resistance to colorectal cancer treatment; or new pathways involved in bladder cancer. Finally, should ‘dangerous’ data be published? Find out our researchers’ views on this.