El IBEC dedica su segunda edición del programa Faster Future a la lucha contra el Parkinson

by Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya

5 years ago
sistema nervioso central, Parkinson, IBEC, programa

El programa IBEC Faster Future, que persigue recaudar fondos para llevar a la práctica clínica determinados proyectos que ya se encuentran en una etapa avanzada de investigación, hará posible el d...

The Catalan strategy on health in the 'Horizon Europe' program

by Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya

5 years ago
Health, Horizon Europe, research program

Representatives of IBEC together with the Health Department of the Generalitat de Catalunya met with different European entities in Brussels to define the Catalan strategy of political positioning in ...

12th Annual Conference of Biomedical Research Technology Platforms

by Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya

5 years ago
Technological Platforms, Biomedical, pediatric cancer, conference

The Spanish Platform for Nanomedicine (NanoMedSpain) coordinated by Josep Samitier, director of IBEC, has participated once again in the Annual Conference of Technological Platforms of Biomedical Rese...

Urea-powered nanomotors a promising therapy for bladder cancer

by Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya

5 years ago
bladder cancer, urea, nanomotors

IBEC’s Smart Nano-Bio-Devices group have published a paper describing nanomotors that can attack 3D bladder cancer spheroids in vitro.

IBEC researchers generate mini-kidneys vascularized from stem cells

by Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya

5 years ago
minirriñones, mother cells, biomaterials, kidney pathologies

Researchers from the IBEC have created, for the first time, 3D organoid cultures from pluripotent stem cells, which resemble human embryonic kidney tissue during the second trimester of pregnancy.

3D bioprinted robots

by Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya

5 years ago
Smart Nano-Bio-Devices, nanorobots, biorobots, muscle tissue, 3D bioprinting

IBEC’s Smart Nano-Bio-Devices group – the institute’s experts in micro- and nanorobots – have used 3D bioprinting to produce ‘biorobots’ made of biological elements such as muscle tissue. ...

Two promising avenues in the fight against antibiotic resistance

by Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya

5 years ago
morpholine, resistance, antibiotics, antimicrobial

IBEC’s Bacterial infections: antimicrobial therapies group have published two papers offering new hope in the urgent search for antimicrobials.

Proteins can transfer electrons at a distance

by Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya

5 years ago
IBEC, Nature Communications, electron transfer, protein

Collaborating IBEC groups have published a study in Nature Communications that reveals that electron transfer can take place while a protein is approaching its partner site, and not only when the prot...

Scientists discover super-stretchy cells

by Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya

6 years ago
super-stretchy cells

One of the most enviable features of superheroes is their ability to stretch their bodies beyond imaginable limits. In a study published today in Nature, scientists have discovered that our cells can ...

Your face is pushed forward from the back of your head

by Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya

6 years ago
neural crest cells

The surprising new discovery that the engine that moves neural crest cells is at the back rather than the front has important consequences, as any modification of cell movement aiming to repair facial...

The way tumor cells expand challenges current physics

by Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya

6 years ago
metastasis, cancer, tumors

In an article published today in Nature Physics, the researchers have challenged our current understanding of the discipline and developed a new framework that could help predict the conditions under ...

New IBEC group creates ‘fitness heatmaps’ of gene mutations

by Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya

6 years ago
gene mutations, toxic genes

The start of the autumn semester finds a new face in IBEC’s research community, with Dr. Benedetta Bolognesi joining the institute as junior group leader. Benedetta has come from Barcelona’s Centr...