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“Prueban prótesis para huesos impresos en 3D capaces de regenerarse”

September 20, 2018

Pronto magazine reported on IBEC’s 3D bioprinting capabilities and, in particular, the collaboration of the company AVINENT S.L. and the institute to carry out a research project to print personalized bone structures using 3D technology.

“Huesos de impresora que regeneran el propio”

September 3, 2018

Last week La Vanguardia reported on the collaboration of the company AVINENT S.L. and IBEC to carry out a research project to print personalized bone structures using 3D technology.

“Conquering Chemical Weapons with Enzymes”

August 23, 2018

IBEC group leader and ICREA research professor Samuel Sánchez is quoted in an article in Inside Science about enzymes that could counteract the effects of toxic nerve agents.

“Cell scientist to watch – Pere Roca-Cusachs”

August 20, 2018

IBEC group leader Pere Roca-Cusachs is the Journal of Cell Science’s ‘cell scientist to watch’ in its current edition.

“L’Obra Social La Caixa concedeix 77 beques de doctorat”

Last week there was a lot of press coverage of the La Caixa PhD fellowships ceremony, which took place at the Caixaforum on 3rd July.

“Organoids: mini organs in a dish for disease research and new cures”

A ‘Results in Brief’ article about Elena Martinez’s ERC project COMIET has been published on the CORDIS website, the EC’s Community Research and Development Information Service.

“El hombre que interroga a cada cáncer hasta saber cómo matarlo”

Joan Montero, a senior researcher in IBEC’s Nanobioengineering group, appeared yesterday in an interview published by the SINC Agency in which he talks about his laboratory test – which is already being used in some hospitals in the United States – which is capable of predicting, in just 24 hours, if a drug will be able to kill a tumor.

“Ja es comença a dir que no hi ha malaties, sinó malalts”

An interview with IBEC director Josep Samitier in his capacity as the president of ACER appeared in the ‘Dominical’ supplement of the Diari de Girona last week.

“La música de la ciencia”

In a La Vanguardia feature by Josep Corbella, IBEC’s Xavier Trepat is interviewed along with IRB’s Salvador Aznar-Benitah about the important role music plays in their lives, how it has affected their careers as researchers, and about the relation and similarities between musical and scientific creativity.

“Mecanobiología de los tejidos celulares’

An article by IBEC researchers Pilar Rodríguez, Xavier Trepat and Raimon Sunyer about the importance of physical forces in understanding biological function appears in the June edition of Investigación y Ciencia, the Spanish-language version of Scientific American magazine.