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).
IBEC Senior Researcher Eduard Torrents participated in a conference to mark the National Day for Cystic Fibrosis last Wednesday 25 April. This event, which took place at the Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR), also included the official presentation of funds from the Associació Catalana de Fibrosis Quística (Catalan Association of Cystic Fibrosis) to research groups specializing in the disease.
IBEC associate director Josep Samitier officially opened the Tecnorrevolución exhibition at Barcelona’s CosmoCaixa museum last night.
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.
Don’t miss NanoMed Spain’s new and improved website at www.nanomedspain.net, which now offers extra features including a monthly newsletter that users may subscribe to, an RSS feed of news and events and a link to the platform’s new Twitter account (https://twitter.com/#!/NanomedSpain).
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.
Just as people are picky about the type of mattress they want to sleep on – not too hard, but not so soft either – so are cells. In fact, the rigidity of the cellular environment is so important that it can be the determining factor of whether a stem cell will differentiate into bone or fat, for example – or whether a cell behaves normally or turns cancerous.