News Archives - El·lipse

PARP inhibitors are considered a potential treatment for cancer. | Picture by National Cancer Institute from Unsplash.

Research 24.02.2020

Designing PARP-specific inhibitors would enhance their effectiveness against cancer

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.

Public engagement 20.02.2020

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

Photo by Alex Blăjan on Unsplash

Research 19.02.2020

Spending time in green spaces could delay your menopause

Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo, researcher at IBE, was the mission commander of the latest 'trip to Mars' in Astroland, where he collected environmental samples to analyse.

Research 18.02.2020

A scientific field trip to Mars… on Earth

During the last 10 years, eating disorders cases have doubled globally. | Picture by Tom Sodoge on Unsplash.

Research 13.02.2020

Food addiction exists, and shares common features with drug addiction

Researchers find that NFAT5 helps control the levels of interferons during the immune response. Image by allinonemovie from Pixabay.

Research 12.02.2020

New key element to control interferons during the immune response

Toni Celià-Terrassa's research, in the IMIM, is focused on the mechanisms of breast cancer metastasis.

Scientific life 10.02.2020

Toni Celià-Terrassa (IMIM): “More than 90% of cancer deaths are due to metastasis”

Picture of the last edition of the Open Day at the PRBB. | © Jordi Casañas.

Scientific life 05.02.2020

The reality of the gender gap in science: debates, activities and campaigns for February 11

EMBL Barcelona and IBEC found it interesting to use their synergy to start a collaboration and they decided to do it with a symposium that will bring together international experts in multicellular systems.

Research 03.02.2020

EMBL Barcelona co-organizes a Conference on Engineering in Multicellular Systems

The only intervention that has been proved to work in order to live longer is caloric restriction. | Pictures by Priscilla Du Preez and Otavio Matos from Unsplash.

Research 29.01.2020

Ana Maria Cuervo (Albert Einstein College of Medicine): “Food clocking helps clean our cells”

The EGA (European Genome-Phenome Archive) is a kind of showcase for genomic studies worldwide. | Picture by Daniel von Appen from Unsplash.

Research 27.01.2020

EGA: repository, distributor and science accelerator

Antibiotic resistance is becoming a huge public health problem. Researchers at ISGlobal are playing all their cards to help solve the problem. Photo by CDC on Unsplash.

Public engagement 24.01.2020

Want to help solve the antibiotic resistance crisis? Play your cards right