DCEXS-UPF Archives - El·lipse

Researchers used light exposure to impress a complex pattern, spread across an area slightly smaller than the thickness of a human hair, onto a biofilm community, made up of hundreds of individual bacteria. | Picture by the UPF and UCSD.

19.05.2020

DCEXS-UPF researchers show bacteria can store information in a similar way to neurons

Untrained staff performing the test will get an unequivocal result from the instrument. | Picture by the UPF.

15.05.2020

InstaCOVID19: UPF develops rapid diagnostic tests for SARS-CoV-2

Exceptional prevention measures are coming into effect for the entire PRBB community. These measures are accompanied by new signalling with clear messages. Following the measures, self-responsibility and respect for all residents will be key. | Picture by Albert Català.

12.05.2020

The PRBB gets ready for a phased comeback of its residents

Picture by AS_Appendorf from Pixabay.

22.04.2020

Research life in times of the coronavirus pandemic

The four PRBB researchers who have received the international grants to finance their research projects. From left to right, Verena Ruprecht (CRG), Óscar Vilarroya (IMIM), Oriol Gallego (DCEXS-UPF) and Ben Lehner (CRG).

15.04.2020

Prestigious international and European grants will finance PRBB research projects

| Edited picture from the National Cancer Institute on Unsplash.

07.04.2020

On Covid-19 research at the PRBB

07.04.2020

Making a contribution to Hospital del Mar to fight against the new coronavirus pandemic

Picture of the debate that took place after the screening of the documentary "Scientifilia".

22.03.2020

A gender perspective on the scientific career

Pilar Rivera runs the DCXES-UPF nanomedicine laboratory.

19.03.2020

Pilar Rivera (DCEXS-UPF): “University is where knowledge is generated; you’re learning today what will be tomorrow’s news”

The BALSAC database contains the genealogical relationships that links five million individuals, the majority married in Quebec in the last four centuries. | Picture by David Anderson from Unsplash.

11.03.2020

Combining genetics with genealogy to identify the dead in unmarked graves

The mechanisms shown in this study are not specific to the two species of bacteria and the antibiotics used. | Picture by Anna Shvets from Pexels.

10.03.2020

Bacteria might help each other to resist antibiotics better

Protein aggregates that appear in Schizosaccharomyces pombe yeast cells exposed to high temperatures. | Picture by Margarita Cabrera.

02.03.2020

Scientists identify the main strategy of cells to deal with the accumulation of misfolded proteins