Inventions that make life easier Blog Post

Inventors study new ways of carrying out tasks more easily, rapidly or efficiently. Many researchers strive to achieve this, including the two partners who founded . This start-up company arose from a friendship between two young entrepreneurs during an ERASMUS grant. Sabirmedical has recently joined the Bioincubator PCB-Santander at the Barcelona Science Park.

New Light Technique Developed to Observe Real-Time Cellular Activity on a Nanometric Scale Blog Post

In any biological process, multiple interactions occurring at the molecular level make it impossible to observe live cells in real time, because light microscopes cannot focus light at scales of less than 350 nanometres. New breakthroughs in nanophotonics, however, will shortly enable us to visualise molecular processes at an optical resolution of ten nanometres, according to researcher María García-Parajo, head of the at the Catalonia Institute for Bioengineering (IBEC), located at the PCB. This and other insights appear in an article entitled “Optical antennas focus in on biology”, published in the online edition of the journal Nature Photonics. (doi:10.1038/nphoton.2008.37).

PCB bioincubator reaches final of European Enterprise Awards Blog Post

The bioincubator of the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) will be one of the finalists representing Spain in the . The awards are given by the European Union in recognition of best practices among those public, regional and local initiatives aimed at promoting the enterprise spirit and economic and business development in the various regions of a country.

Researchers at the IRB-PCB demonstrate the link between stem cells and tumors Blog Post

Scientists at the Institute of Biomedical Research of the Parc Científic de Barcelona ( ) have performed a study that indicates that some cancer tumors may originate through defects in stem cell division. The study, directed by Cayetano González, ICREA researcher and head of the Cell Division Group at the IRB-PCB, has focused on the division of the neuroblast, the cell fated to become a neuron, in models of the fly Drosophila . The results from this research have been published in the 4 September online edition of the scientific journal (doi:10.1038/ng1632).

Collaboration agreement between the CIDEM-PCB Bioincubator of the Parc Científic de Barcelona and an incubator in Québec Blog Post

On 12th September, the CIDEM-PCB Bioincubator of the Parc Científic de Barcelona (PCB, Barcelona Science Park) and the business incubator Quebec Biotechnology Innovation Centre (), located in the of Laval Island (Quebec), signed a collaboration agreement which aims to strengthen new cooperation models that support the creation of new enterprises.