10 edició de la fira «Recerca en directe»TO TRANSLATE >>> Blog Post

Els propers dies 24, 25 i 26 d’abril tindrà lloc a La Pedrera la 10ª edició de la Fira «Recerca en directe». L’objectiu d’aquest esdeveniment –que organitza anualment el Parc Científic de Barcelona i la Fundació de CatalunyaCaixa– és mostrar diversos projectes que es duen a terme a centres i instituts de recerca de Barcelona, per apropar la ciència a tots els ciutadans i fomentar vocacions científiques entre els joves.

Inventions that make life easier Blog Post

Inventors study new ways of carrying out tasks more easily, rapidly or efficiently. Many researchers strive to achieve this, including the two partners who founded . This start-up company arose from a friendship between two young entrepreneurs during an ERASMUS grant. Sabirmedical has recently joined the Bioincubator PCB-Santander at the Barcelona Science Park.

New Light Technique Developed to Observe Real-Time Cellular Activity on a Nanometric Scale Blog Post

In any biological process, multiple interactions occurring at the molecular level make it impossible to observe live cells in real time, because light microscopes cannot focus light at scales of less than 350 nanometres. New breakthroughs in nanophotonics, however, will shortly enable us to visualise molecular processes at an optical resolution of ten nanometres, according to researcher María García-Parajo, head of the at the Catalonia Institute for Bioengineering (IBEC), located at the PCB. This and other insights appear in an article entitled “Optical antennas focus in on biology”, published in the online edition of the journal Nature Photonics. (doi:10.1038/nphoton.2008.37).

Collaboration agreement between the CIDEM-PCB Bioincubator of the Parc Científic de Barcelona and an incubator in Québec Blog Post

On 12th September, the CIDEM-PCB Bioincubator of the Parc Científic de Barcelona (PCB, Barcelona Science Park) and the business incubator Quebec Biotechnology Innovation Centre (), located in the of Laval Island (Quebec), signed a collaboration agreement which aims to strengthen new cooperation models that support the creation of new enterprises.