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.
Researchers at IBEC and IRB achieve photo-switchable molecules to control protein-protein interactions in a remote and non-invasive manner
Researchers at IBEC, the University of Barcelona and their collaborators have found that cells in our bodies, when moving collectively, carry out something similar to a game of ‘tag’ to coordinate their movement in a particular direction.The scientists in Barcelona and London looked at cells in the neural crest, a very mobile embryonic structure in vertebrates that gives rise to most of the peripheral nervous system and to other cell types in the cardiovascular system, pigment cells in the skin, and some bones, cartilage, and connective tissue in the head.
On Monday, at a ceremony in Sabadell, IBEC received its funding award for an outreach project from the Fundació Antigues Caixes Catalanes (formerly Unnim Caixa) of the BBVA.
IBEC’s former director Josep A. Planell is the first scientist from Spain to be awarded the prestigious George Winter prize of the European Society for Biomaterials.
Wednesday’s IBEC Symposium on Bioengineering and Nanomedicine welcomed 230 participants, almost 40 of them coming from outside IBEC from places as far afield as Belgium and Colombia.
At yesterday’s Board of Trustees meeting, Josep Samitier was appointed as the new Director of IBEC.
Some pioneering work by an IBEC alumnus was featured in the magazine Scientific American this week.