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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”

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

Scientific life  16.01.2020

A matter of gender (or gender matters)

Community  06.01.2020

A ‘science machine’ that never rests

In this book, the researcher Carles Lalueza-Fox brings us the possibility of 'reviving' extinct species, such as mammoths. | Picture from Pixabay.
Public engagement  19.12.2019

“De-extinctions”, a book by Carles Lalueza-Fox

Picture obtained by the NASA Hubble telescope. The new algorithm, designed by the Notredame laboratory, does for the genome the same as this telescope to the space.
Research  13.12.2019

A Hubble telescope for our genes: a new algorithm compares almost 1.5 million DNA sequences

The young researcher from Olot, Marc Güell, head of the laboratory of Translational Synthetic Biology at the DCEXS-UPF in the PRBB, has been distinguished by the Catalan Foundation for Research.
Community  10.12.2019

Marc Güell (DCEXS-UPF) receives the National Research Award for Young Talent

The sleep-awake cycle is the classic example of circadian rhythm, but not the only one. Photo by Levi Guzman in Unsplash.
Public engagement  27.11.2019

Dancing to the circadian rhythms

Amongst the 6,216 most influential scientists in the world, we find seven scientists from the PRBB centers | Picture by Patrick Tomasso in Unsplash.
Community  22.11.2019

Seven PRBB researchers amongst the most cited international scientists

Jaw of a Gigantopithecus blacki (P1-M2=74mm). Credit image: Prof. Wei Wang; Edit: Theis Jensen.
Research  20.11.2019

Paleoproteomics takes us back 2 million years and solves the mystery of a giant extinct ape

Joana Porcel, research manager at ISGlobal.
Scientific life  30.10.2019

Joana Porcel (ISGlobal): “My scientific and admin experiences help me link two worlds that tend to go separately”

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