Researchers from IBMB-CSIC decipher the first level of DNA folding Blog Post

DNA topology team from the Structural Biology Unit (SBU) of the Institute of Molecular Biology of Barcelona (IBMB-CSIC) at  the Barcelona Science Park has solved the so-called “paradox of the nucleosomal DNA linking number”. They have been able to show that the theory described about how DNA is packaged in our cells was true. The solution to this problem, which has been the subject of debate for more than 3 decades, has been published in the journal Nature Communications.

 

Tumor cell expansion challenges current physics Blog Post

The journal Nature Physics published a study by a team led by Xavier Trepat, ICREA researcher at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) in the Barcelona Science Park and lecturer at the Department of Biomedicine University of Barcelona (UB), and Jaume Casademunt, professor of Physics at the UB, reveals the forces these tumor cells use to spread. The relation between these forces and the cell movement goes beyond current physical laws. 

 

The Barcelona Science Park is set to have a strong presence at BioSpain 2018 Blog Post

From 25 to 27 September, the FIBES Exhibition Congress Centre in Seville will be the venue for BioSpain 2018, one of the the largest biotech event in Europe and the fifth most important event in the world in terms of number of partnering meetings. This 9th edition of the event is being organised by the Spanish Bioindustry Association (ASEBIO) together with the Regional Government of Andalusia, through the IDEA Agency. Nearly one hundred companies and institutions from the BioRegion of Catalonia – including the Barcelona Science Park (PCB) and a large number of entities located in the Park – have confirmed their attendance at the fair, which is held every two years in a different Spanish city.

 

Barcelona Science Park celebrates 20 years as a scientific and business innovation centre Blog Post

Yesterday, Barcelona Science Park (Parc Científic de Barcelona, PCB) held the first of a number of events scheduled to commemorate its 20 years as a meeting place for universities, companies and society. Established by the University of Barcelona (UB) in 1997 with the mission of promoting formulas to enhance research excellence, knowledge transfer and entrepreneurship, it was the first science park in Spain. Twenty years after the first brick was laid, the Barcelona Science Park is now one of Europe’s leading science, technology and business innovation parks for life sciences. Covering an area of over 100,000 m2, it boasts a wide range of scientific and technological infrastructures and an innovative community made up of more than 100 public and private entities and 2,700 professionals

 

The Barcelona Science Park announces a new artistic intervention competition Blog Post

The Barcelona Science Park (PCB) is holding a new artistic intervention competition which offers participants the chance to design, with total freedom, a 125 metre-long space in the Cluster building, one of the main communication channels between the various research laboratories of the PCB. The ‘L’aigua és vida‘ [Water is life] project, by painter Kelly Arrontes, won the previous competition in 2017.

 

IBEC joins with Avinent to create prostheses that become real bone Blog Post

Advances in 3D bioprinted prostheses that are truly incorporated into the body –with their own blood vessels and sensitivity– are becoming increasingly more remarkable. This has been demonstrated by Avinent Implant System and the Biomaterials for Regenerative Therapies group led by Elisabeth Engell at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), that are jointly developing an ambitious project to create 3D printed pieces from biomaterials.

 

New clues to analyse gene expression through epigenetics Blog Post

Researchers from the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG), based in the Barcelona Science Park, and the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) have shown that the DNA region known as the first intron, a region to which not much attention had been paid until now, is a key region for analysing gene expression by epigenetic modifications. Anna Esteve-Codina, data analyst of the Functional Genomics team at the CNAG-CRG, is co-author of the paper.