The Integrative Cell and Tissue Dynamics group’s recent paper published in PNAS was covered in Diario Medico last week. In the article, group leader Xavier Trepat explains their new experimental … Read more
A video about the BOND project and featuring Josep Samitier appeared on Europe’s leading international news channel, Euronews. 
On Saturday 21 April Control of Stem Cell Potency group leader Ángel Raya gave a plenary lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Sociedad Española de Diabetes in Vigo (http://sedvigo2012.pacifico-meetings.com/index.php/programa).
Yesterday La Vanguardia published a news item about the inauguration of the Tecnorrevolución exhibition at Barcelona’s CosmoCaixa museum, which was officially opened by IBEC associate director Josep Samitier last night.
In their coverage of the Fira en Directe at La Pedrera yesterday, Barcelona TV chose to focus on IBEC. The reporter interviewed PhD student Xavier Giralt for several minutes about the robotics activities and demonstrations on the IBEC stand.
The recent press release about Pere Roca-Cusachs’ PNAS paper looking at the way cells probe their environment was covered by Diario Medico on 28 March.
IBEC got a mention in Spanish daily El Mundo yesterday, when Robotics group leader Alicia Casals gave her expert opinion in an article about the use of robots in healthcare and the financial hurdles that impede their translation to the clinic.
Last week’s press release about the Control of Stem Cell Potency group’s discovery of disease-specific phenotypes in induced pluripotent stem cells from Parkinsons patients was covered by several newspapers, magazines and websites. These included daily business newspaper El Economista, online science magazine Tendencias 21, and Europapress, the major national news agency.
In their bulletin for February, the Spanish Association of Biotechnology Companies (ASEBIO) published an editorial by the president of their scientific committee Emilio Muñoz, about the impact of bionanotechnology in Spain and guidelines for the future.