“Benvinguts a la medicina del futur”
Category Archives: IBEC in the Media
An article about future medicine – including IBEC’s research into organ-on-a-chip, nanoparticles for drug delivery and light controlled drugs – appeared in the February edition of Theknos, the magazine of the Col·legi d’Enginyers Graduats i Enginyers Tècnics Industrials de Barcelona.“Cuestionan el uso de antioxidantes para tratar las lesiones medulares”
Yesterday’s press release about Arnau Hervera and José Antonio del Río’s work, together with Imperial College, that was published in Nature Cell Biology and described their discovery that oxidizing species regulate the regeneration of damaged neurons after spinal cord injuries, was covered in ABC and El Progreso today.
“La parte del cerebro que predice el futuro”
The SPECS group’s paper that came out in Proc. R. Soc. B just before Christmas, which proposed that fast, reactive motor actions result from the ability of the brain to simulate the future, was featured in El Mundo this week.
“Cells sense and explore their environments”
IBEC research (and IBEC researchers) have been getting some visibility on global news sites this week.
“Un músculo en un chip”
Javier Ramon’s ‘muscle-on-a-chip’ that will use a patient’s own cells to study Myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), the most common form of muscular dystrophy, is the subject of an article in El Periodico today.
“ERC: Getting into the lab with the latest winners”
An article by BIOCAT profiles the three winners in Catalonia of the last round of ERC Starting Grants, including IBEC’s Lorenzo Albertazzi.
“A Short (Hi)story of Malaria”
Nanomalaria joint unit group leader Xavier Fernàndez-Busquets is the author of a serialised post on Health ISGlobal, the blog of the Barcelona Institute for Global Health.
Què Qui Com: “Menudes teràpies”
In the Què Qui Com program that aired yesterday on Canal 33, Samuel Sánchez, ICREA research professor at IBEC, explained the work being done in his group to develop nanorobots that can release drugs in a controlled manner.
During the interview, Samuel explained why it is important to design effective methods to ensure the drug affects a specific target, and what challenges they face in designing nanorobots with this function.
“Differential Electrochemical Conductance Imaging at the Nanoscale”
A paper by Pau Gorostiza’s group published last month in Small is a “Paper of the Month” in Biofisica magazine, the online magazine of the Sociedad de Biofísica de España.
“Las bioimpresoras abren el camino a la creación de órganos en 3D”
Nuria Montserrat features in an article in El Periodico today which discusses the possibilities offered by 3D bioprinting to create replacement tissues or even whole organs.
