The Biomechanics and Mechanobiology group’s latest paper, published yesterday in PLoS Computational Biology, made the BBC news today. Andrea Malandrino, Jérôme Noailly and group leader Damien Lacroix’s paper, ‘The effect of sustained compression on oxygen metabolic transport in the intervertebral disc decreases with degenerative changes’ describes results that could help to predict the onset of spinal disc degeneration.
The Molecular and Cellular Neurotechnology group’s recent paper on the development of epilepsy made the news today in Diario Medico, Spain’s leading newspaper for health professionals.
PhD student Xavier Giralt was interviewed for the ‘Gente corriente’ section on the back page of Saturday’s El Periódico.
The Neurochem project, Biologically inspired computation for chemical sensing, has been featured in the July edition of the FET (Future and Emerging Technologies in Europe) newsletter which is published by the European Commission.
The Biomechanics and Mechanobiology group’s work and Damien Lacroix’s recent ERC grant is the subject of an article in this month’s Teraflop, the magazine of the Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya (CESCA).
Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches group leader and ICREA professor Pau Gorostiza is featured in an interview in Recercat, the online newsletter of the Commission for Universities and Research of the Ministry of Economy and Knowledge.
An article about BioNanoMed Cat appeared in La Vanguardia’s Dinero supplement on 19 June, in which Josep Samitier and the director general of Biocat, Montserrat Vendrell, explain the aim of the IBEC-led alliance.
An article by IBEC associate director Josep Samitier, ‘Nanomedicina: nanotecnologías aplicadas a la salud’ appears in the latest edition of SEBBM, a periodical published by the Sociedad Española de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular.
IBEC group leader Xavier Trepat is the subject of the latest edition of Destacamus, a bimonthly magazine published by Biopol’H which profiles researchers.
In its June edition, El Global, the most prominent journal on the pharmaceutical sector in Spain, features a news item on the IBEC-led alliance BioNanoMed Catalunya, which aims to bring together researchers, hospitals and companies working in nanomedicine.