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.

The UB Science Park will be home to the National Genome Analysis Centre Blog Post

In a meeting held today at the Palau de la Generalitat, José Montilla, President of the Generalitat, Cristina Garmendia, the Minister for Science and Innovation, Marina Geli, the Catalan Minister for Health and Social Security, Josep Huguet, of the Catalan Department of Innovation, Universities and Business, and Dídac Ramírez, President of the Barcelona Science Park Foundation and Rector of the University of Barcelona (UB), signed a cooperation agreement governing the creation of the National Genome Analysis Centre (CNAG), a new high-performance genome sequencing centre to be opened in the Barcelona Science Park and which is aimed at consolidating Spain’s status as a leading player in the strategic area of genomics research.

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).