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First BBVA-funded outreach event a great success
Residents of Barcelona’s Sant Antoni district learnt all about robotics yesterday evening at ‘Ens envaeixen els robots!’, a talk given by the Robotic’s group’s Xavier Giralt at the Biblioteca Sant Antoni-Joan Oliver.
IBEC research on a journal cover again
The October cover of Current Opinion in Cell Biology (the reference opinion journal in cell biology, with impact factor 12) features research by IBEC’s Pere Roca and Xavier Trepat, who together with Raimon Sunyer from the UB have published a review paper in the issue, “Mechanical guidance of cell migration: lessons from chemotaxis”.
IBEC researcher in first class of d·HEALTH Barcelona
IBEC senior researcher Mateu Pla is one of the first class of just 12 fellows chosen for the first Design Health Barcelona (d·HEALTH Barcelona) higher education programme, which starts this week.
Josep A. Planell first Spanish scientist to receive European biomaterials prize
Josep A. Planell, founding director of IBEC, was presented with the European Society of Biomaterials’ prestigious George Winter prize at their annual conference held in Madrid on Tuesday.
IBEC paper on the cover of Nature Materials
The latest cover of Nature Materials was designed by IBEC PhD student Xavier Serra and shows a real tissue segmented computationally to give the impression of a Gaudinian trencadís.
Engineering biomaterials at the nanoscale
IBEC researchers have come up with a groundbreaking new approach to create a tough, biodegradable, bioactive and entirely new material, heralding a major milestone in the production of artificial matrices for tissue engineering.
In a letter published today in the Royal Society journal Interface, the Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies group describes a new, easy and cheap method for producing glass-coated fibrous scaffolds which not only faithfully mimic the extracellular matrix of bone, but also aim to direct stem cell fate through physical and chemical interactions.
“Medicaments que s’activen quan els toca la llum” (Eng)
Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches group leader Pau Gorostiza was the subject of a feature last week in La Vanguardia‘s Sunday magazine “Diners”.
“El futur augura que tindrem la salut a l’abast de la mà” (Eng)
“Nova aplicació mòbil que detecta la somnolència al volant” (Eng)
Santiago Marco is interviewed in a video for UBTV about Somnoalert®, the mobile technology his group developed with the UB and industry partner FICOSA to detect drowsiness while driving.