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To make in-house reservations, either for the BioSpace lab or for the other equipment, click here: BioSpace Lab The BioSpace Lab is a shared communal space located in the basement … Read more
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DirectorJosep Samitier Managing Director Sergi Camacho Assistant to the DirectorEster Sánchez People Management We welcome you to the People Management Unit of the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC). We … Read more
Researchers measure a property of DNA for the first time
The electric polarizability of DNA is a fundamental property that directly influences its biological functions. Despite the importance of this property, however, its measurement has remained elusive so far.
In a study published in PNAS today, researchers at Barcelona’s Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) led by Laura Fumagalli, senior researcher at IBEC and lecturer at the University of Barcelona, and their collaborators at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB) and at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), and at Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia (CNB-CSIC) and IMDEA Nanociencia in Madrid, describe how they have found a way to directly measure DNA electric polarizability – represented by its dielectric constant, which indicates how a material reacts to an applied electric field – for the first time ever.
Bacterial infections: antimicrobial therapies
The Bacterial infections: antimicrobial therapies group is a senior group. Infectious diseases constitute a tenacious and major public health problem all over the world. The emergence and increasing prevalence of … Read more
Research groups
Units Severo Ochoa Distinguished Professor Associated Researchers Associated researchers are university professors seconded to IBEC who are working on topics that are of interest or complementary to our research areas.
