“La física ‘guía’ a las células” (Eng)
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Unexpected discovery about the ways cells move could boost understanding of complex diseases
A new discovery about how cells move inside the body may provide scientists with crucial information about disease mechanisms such as the spread of cancer or the constriction of airways caused by asthma.
Researchers at IBEC and Harvard School of Public Health have found that epithelial cells—the type that form a barrier between the inside and the outside of the body, such as skin cells—move in a group, propelled by forces both from within and from nearby cells to fill any spaces they encounter.
“Las células juegan al «pilla-pilla» en su desarrollo embrionario” (Eng)
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.
Pioneering breakthrough of chemical nanoengineering to design drugs controlled by light
Researchers at IBEC and IRB achieve photo-switchable molecules to control protein-protein interactions in a remote and non-invasive manner
These tools will serve as a prototype to develop photo-switchable drugs, whose effects would be limited to a given region and time, thus reducing the side effects on other regions.
Cells play ‘tag’ to determine direction of movement
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.
Funding from BBVA for outreach project
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.
“Crean embriones humanos con la técnica empleada para clonar a la oveja ‘Dolly’” (Eng)
ESB’s George Winter award for Josep A. Planell
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.
Shedding new light on myelination and potential therapies for MS
Research done at IBEC that was published in the journal Cell. Mol. Life Sci. last week reveals a hopeful new lead in the quest to understand neurodegenerative diseases such as multiple sclerosis.
Sixth IBEC symposium a farewell to Josep
