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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

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