Public engagement Archives - El·lipse

How do we decide when and if we should use the new genome editing technologies, whose impact may be noticed in future generations?

18.08.2020

Genome editing with CRISPR

Once we have a coronavirus vaccine, will there be people who won't want to get vaccinated? And why? Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash.

10.08.2020

What if… there is a coronavirus vaccine and people don’t want to get vaccinated?

veryone can do their part to prevent the spread of false information. Photo of the United Nations Response to COVID-19.

22.07.2020

5 tips to combat scientific fake news in times of coronavirus

Twitter is, according to Luca Cozzuto, the best social channel for a scientist to communicate and to follow colleagues. Photo by Morning Brew on Unsplash.

15.07.2020

How sending a tweet got me on national television

Detecting cancer in human tissues, LM. Credit: Aamir Ahmed, Jane Pendjiky and Michael Millar. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

25.06.2020

Cancer: a problem of brakes and accelerators

The competition aims to analyze the data set that Florence Nightingale used to determine the causes of death of the British Army during the Crimean War.

15.06.2020

Rladies host contest to commemorate Florence Nightingale’s 200th anniversary

IBE researchers have developed a method to determine the chimpanzee subspecies with affordable genomic analysis that can be used to conserve endangered species.

08.06.2020

When genomics helps save chimps

The first 100% online CRG Scientific Coffee, about the citizen science project "Saca La Lengua", was a success.

20.05.2020

What can you do for science? The first online CRG Scientific Coffee

The latest book by physicist Ricard Solé, a researcher at the IBE, takes us into the world of viruses.

11.05.2020

Viruses: complex adaptive systems

IBE researchers, creators of the TreeScape activity, carried out from the design and manufacture of the activity, to the start up of the game. | Picture by the IBE communications officer, Pilar Rodríguez.

05.05.2020

TreeScape: learning about evolutionary biology through an “Escape Room”

Moving our body following the beat of a song requires great coordination from our brain. | Picture by Alexander Popov on Unsplash.

04.03.2020

Music rhythm on the brain

Students tend to have a more solid position towards the scientific-technological path once they get older than 10-14 years old | Picture by NeONBRAND on Unsplash.

20.02.2020

“We must awake aspirations, not vocations, among youth”