Biology & biomedicine Projects
Chaos as a strategy
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02 May 2016
A study analyzes the search strategy for food used by a marine snail. It is based on chaotic turns and movements. This search pattern, could be useful for search applications (drons, people rescue…) when there is no clear sign of the item that has to be found.
A novel targeted anticancer therapy system based on carbon nanocapsules
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03 Mar 2016
Researchers from the Materials Science Institute of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) in collaboration with the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMC-CNRS) and King’s College London (KCL) have developed a novel nanocarrier anti-cancer platform for the targeted delivery of radioactivity.
Four CSIC scientists, awarded in the Llavor program for the creation of technology start-up companies
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22 Jul 2015
It is the first edition of the Llavor program, which is aimed at promoting the creation of new technological companies. Four CSIC scientists lead four of the 24 awarded projects.
Award for the bioreactor that simulates the liver
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31 Jul 2015
The project "Liver on a chip", participated by the Biomedical Applications Group of the IMB-CNM (CSIC), won the second prize of the second Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) Health Innovation Contest in the Biomedical Research Innovation category.
Hearten, an app to help in the treatment of heart failure
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04 Jun 2015
Hearten is a project funded by the European Commission aimed at developing devices and apps for tablets and mobile phones, in order to help heart failure patients and sanitarian professionals to improve adherence to therapy.
