The metastasis challenge against the clock
A scientific escape room inside a real laboratory to raise funds for cancer research.
The Barcelona Biomedical Research Institute is setting up an escape room that could contribute to saving the lives of people with cancer. It is a clue-based game that you can participate in until 27 July and is part of the Metastasis Challenge charity campaign. The aim of this initiative is to raise funds for oncological research into metastasis. One of the ways of raising funds is this fun activity in which participants work as a team and use ingenuity and logic to solve an enigma in one of the laboratories in the research centre itself in groups of 6 to 10 people and in less than 60 minutes.
The storyline is the mysterious disappearance of a key researcher in metastasis, the process whereby a tumour spreads to other organs in the body. If it is not detected early, metastasis can have very serious consequences. So much so, that it is the cause of 90% of deaths by cancer. In recent decades, we have made great progress in understanding different types of cancer and treating them effectively. However, the treatments that today allow us to combat primary tumours in their initial stages do not work when metastasis is taking place. We need more knowledge, which means more research, providing suitable facilities and using cutting-edge technology. This is what the €5 million the Metastasis Challenge campaign is seeking to raise from contributions from companies, organisations and individuals will be used for.
The researcher who has disappeared was just about to publish the results of her work, which would represent a great step forward in the struggle against this process. The lives of many people may depend on her and her results! Do you know how to solve the enigma and find her? Will you take up the challenge?
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