“Discovering a key cellular mechanism in the development of breast cancer”
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IBEC researchers share their stories in CosmoCaixa exhibition
Six IBEC researchers are featured in CosmoCaixa museum’s new exhibition, Top Ciencia, that promotes scientific careers in a range of disciplines and gives visitors a glimpse into what it’s like to be a researcher today.
Researchers uncover a fundamental mechanism in breast cancer
A study by IBEC researchers reveals in Nature Materials how mammary cells detect tissue stiffening, which is key to the development of breast cancer
Achieving control of tissue stiffness could open a new avenue to treat tumours like those in the breast
Abnormally rigid tissues are also found in several other types of cancer, so the newly revealed mechanism could be a key aspect behind the onset of various diseases
IBEC participates in 1st CERCA Conference
Today the 1st CERCA Conference brought together its 46 research centres at the new Centre Cultural in the former Mercat del Born.
Sounds of health
A new acoustic method for better diagnosis in patients with diaphragmatic paralysis
A PLOS ONE article by researchers from the joint unit IBEC, the Fundació Institut Germans Trias i Pujol (IGTP) and the Pneumology Service at Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital describes the acoustic analysis of pulmonary sound intensity as a non-invasive, more objective, easier and cheaper method to improve diagnostics in unilateral diaphragmatic paralysis.
IBEC advisor to EC and Horizon 2020 under RO-cKETs study
Institute’s nano-bio-info-cogno expertise to determine medical and pharma products of the future
Generalitat’s education event held at IBEC
IBEC welcomed members of the Generalitat’s Department of Education and about 150 teachers through its doors yesterday evening, when the Department held its event ‘Presentació del Programa de Competències Científiques’ in a research institute for the first time.
“Science advances towards light-activated drugs”
An article about, and interview with, Pau Gorostiza appears in El Periódico today, talking about his work on light-activated drugs.
Faster and more accurate testing for causes of lower respiratory tract infections
Research and industry collaboration develops miniature diagnostic platform for respiratory infections such as pneumonia and infectious bronchitis
Featured on the cover of the latest issue of Lab on a Chip
IBEC to take part in excellence programme for teacher training
IBEC is one of the 13 research centres to be chosen to take part in Fundació Catalunya–La Pedrera’s 2014 edition of Professors i Ciència, an excellence programme for the specialized training for secondary school science teachers.