Researchers from CNAG-CRG and IDIBAPS receive a €8.3 million ERC Synergy Grant Blog Post

The European Research Council (ERC) today announced the results of the 2018 ERC Synergy Grants Call. A project, the BCLL@las, of four research groups from the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG) –based in the Barcelona Science Park and integrated into the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)– and the Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS) have received this prestigious grant to unravel the genomics and epigenomics of chronic lymphocytic leukemia – the most frequent adult leukemia in the Western world– at unprecedented resolution using single-cell analysis. 

 

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.

 

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.

 

Discovery of a key protein involved in the development of autism Blog Post

An international team headed by Raúl Méndez, researcher at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), and José Lucas, researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Network Center for Biomedical Research in Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIBERNED) has identified that CPEB4, a molecule that regulates protein synthesis, is impaired in most cases of autism. The study has been published in the journal Nature.