Control of stem cell potency group leader Ángel Raya appeared on Thursday night’s edition of current events programme Barcelona Connexió on Barcelona Televisió (BTV), in a special report on cloning.
IBEC got another mention in El Periódico this week, when Victoria Englert, winner of the prestigious Intel ISEF prize of the Fundación Catalunya-La Pedrera, talks about her forthcoming internship in the Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches group.
IBEC’s Control of Stem Cell Potency group leader Ángel Raya appears today in La Vanguardia and El Mundo giving his expert opinion on some research published in Nature about a Japanese group that has managed to create a functional human liver using induced pluripotent stem cells.
This morning IBEC Director Josep Samitier was filmed for a new series of video ‘capsules’ in an initiative by the Associació per a la Divulgació de la Cultura Científica.
Monday’s news about the Nature Cell Biology paper ‘Chase-and-run between adjacent cell populations promotes directional collective migration’ was covered in several science and general news sites and magazines, including La Razón.
Some pioneering work by an IBEC alumnus was featured in the magazine Scientific American this week.
Click on the image (left) to see PhD student Sergio Oller from the Signal and Information Processing for Sensing Systems talking about the group’s research into the development of electronic noses based on the mammalian olfactory system.
In this week’s Diario Medico Special on Diagnostic Therapies, IBEC acting director Josep Samitier’s expert opinion is quoted in an article about lab-on-a-chip technologies.