Skip to content
  • CAT
  • ESP
  • ENG
  • About us
  • Contact
El·lipse
  • instagram
  • twitter
  • flickr
  • linkdin
  • facebook
  • youtube
  • Research
  • Public engagement
  • Scientific life
  • Community
  • About us
  • Contact
  • instagram
  • twitter
  • flickr
  • linkdin
  • facebook
  • youtube
  • CAT
  • ESP
  • ENG

Synthetic biology

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

16.04.2020

Study of genetic oscillations of the segmentation clock sheds some light into a disease of the vertebrae

Miki Ebisuya arrived to the EMBL Barcelona, at the PRBB, in 2018 to lead her group on synthetic developmental biology.
01.04.2020

Miki Ebisuya (EMBL Barcelona): “Research is a privilege; I can spend my life studying what I find interesting”

Two postdocs, a PhD student and a technician have joined Miki Ebisuya and her custom made microscope at the PRBB.
16.10.2019

Recreating developmental biology in a dish

The members of the laboratory are biomedical engineers and biologists. The head of the group, Javier Macías, is a physicist.l.
07.10.2019

“We don’t do biology; we do engineering with biological pieces”

The iGEM team after their presentation of the project at the competition in Boston (From left to right: Marc Güell, Avencia Sánchez-Mejías, Marta Vilademunt, Óscar Rodríguez, Laura Sans, Jordi Pla, Dimitrije Ivančić, Eva Gonzalez, Guillem Lopez-Grado, Carla Castignani and Oriol Solà).
01.02.2019

GARGANTUA: the modified bacteria to prevent metastasis

Credit: Collin Edington and Iris Lee, Koch Institute MIT. CC BY-NC-ND
22.01.2019

A gathering of brains, ears and hearts – eight seminars on organoids

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers the biosciences enough computational power and capacity to address the complexity of their research through artificial simulations (Image by Maria Ferrer-Bonet).
18.06.2018

Artificial Intelligence: the ultimate playground

Marc Güell, head of the Translational Synthetic Biology research group at DCEXS-UPF.
10.01.2018

Marc Güell (DCEXS-UPF): “Living matter is the most advanced machinery that exists”

Image of 3D print of vessels of a healthy minipig eye.
15.04.2017

Organ bioengineering

El·lipse is published by the PRBB Communications and Corporate Relations Area.

Dr Aiguader, 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain

For any suggestions or collaborations please contact us at ellipse@prbb.org

  • Read past print editions
  • About El·lipse
  • About the PRBB
  • Legal disclaimer
  • instagram
  • twitter
  • flickr
  • linkdin
  • facebook
  • youtube
© 2025 El·lipse, PRBB
  • Home
  • News
  • Our picks
This website uses cookies that provide us with personal information, such as data associated with your browsing. If you click on I AGREE, both we and our Partners can install cookies or access non-sensitive information on your device in order to facilitate the reproduction of content, provide features on social networks, create profiles and compile statistics on traffic and usability in our website. You can get MORE INFORMATION by accessing our COOKIES POLICY. I agree More information
Privacy & Cookies Policy
Necessary Always Enabled

Subscribe to our mailing list
Want to be the first to know everything that goes on at the biggest biomedical research hub in Southern Europe? Subscribe to the el·lipse newsletter!

We will send you an email with the latest news.

See you soon!

*Required field

Field is not valid
You have to authorize data treatment

At any time, you can exercise the rights of access, rectification, opposition, portability, limitation to treatment and deletion of the data subject to treatment by clicking on the links "Update data" and "Unsubscribe", sending a letter indicating the right exercised to the postal address indicated at the bottom or to the following email address ellipse@prbb.org