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Presenting IBEC projects and Core Facilities at major chemistry show

IBEC is participating this week in Expoquimia, the international chemistry trade show whose 17th edition is taking place from 30 September to 3 October at the Fira Gran Via in Barcelona.

Expoquimia is attended by the leading companies and organizations in the international chemical industry such as BASF, BAYER, Dow Chemical, ICL, REPSOL and SOLVAY. The Fira’s three halls open their doors at 10am today, kicking off a program of workshops, seminars and conferences, as well as the trade exhibition.

“Engineering Sleep Disorders”

An article by Raimon Jané appears in this month’s edition of IEEE Pulse, the magazine of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, which is devoted to the science of sleep.

IBEC internal collaboration succeeds in measuring bacterial cell response to electrical fields

Two groups working together at IBEC demonstrate the potential of electrical studies of single bacterial cells in a paper published in ACS Nano.

Gabriel Gomila’s Nanoscale Bioelectrical Characterization group and that of Antonio Juárez, Microbial Biotechnology and Host-pathogen Interaction, combined their expertise on microscopic electrical measurements and bacteria respectively to come up with a way to study the response to external electrical fields of just a single bacterial cell.

Scientists develop first light-operated drug for most common target proteins

Researchers in IBEC’s Nanoprobes and Nanoswitches group and their collaborators have announced the development of the first ever light-controlled therapeutic agent whose effects focus specifically on the largest, most important class of drug target proteins – G protein-coupled receptors.

In the journal Nature Chemical Biology this week, the scientists reveal Alloswitch-1, the latest advance in their research into photoswitchable (or light-operated) drugs. Controlling drug activity with light means that the therapeutic effects can be accurately delivered locally, thus reducing their effect on other areas and the resultant side effects, and helps reduce the dosage required.

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