Stars of the small screen
Angel Raya and his Control of Stem Cell Potency Group appeared in Sunday’s edition of the tres14 program on national TV channel La 2, which this week was devoted to the subject of stem cells.
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Presentation of IBEC activities to IDIBELL
On Monday 6 June, IBEC will present its activities to biomedical researchers and clinicians from IDIBELL (the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute) to kick off an official collaboration agreement between the two institutes.
“Volem que el nostre coneixement es traslladi al sector de la salut” (Eng)
In today’s edition of Catalan newspaper Ara, IBEC associate director Josep Samitier is interviewed for a full-page feature. In it, he tells journalist Joan García about the history and goals of IBEC, its successes and the challenges it faces.
ERC Starting Grant for IBEC researcher
Biomechanics and mechanobiology group leader Damien Lacroix has been awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for his research on finite element simulations of mechanobiology in tissue engineering.
Plithotaxis: how crowds of cells find their way
First measurements of forces driving collective cell migration unveil new principle in biology
Processes like tissue regeneration and cancer metastasis rely on groups of cells moving long distances without losing their cohesiveness, but how they do this has remained unknown. Now researchers from the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and Harvard University have solved the mystery and unveiled a brand new phenomenon in biology.
Public presentation of BioNanoMed Catalunya
A press conference to present BioNanoMed Catalunya, the IBEC-led alliance created to promote nanotechnology applied to healthcare and biotechnology, was held on Friday at the Museu Colet in Barcelona.
BioNanoMed Catalunya on TV3
The official press launch of BioNanoMed Catalunya, the IBEC-led platform to promote synergies between groups, universities, hospitals and companies doing research in nanotechnology applied to health and biotechnology, featured in the lunchtime news on TV3 on 13 May.
Visit of the SAB to IBEC
Some of IBEC’s research got some constructive feedback last week with the annual visit of members of the institute’s International Scientific Committee (ISC).
“Descubierta una nueva célula en el cuerpo humano”
IBEC group leader Ángel Raya is quoted in an article in La Vanguardia about recent research from Harvard that has discovered a cell type previously unknown in the human body.
“Feedback on Interbio cross-border research projects”
Postdoc researcher in the Nanobioengineering group Toni Homs was asked to give some feedback to be published on the website of the collaborative project Interbio.