Biology & biomedicine Projects
These sponges hide secrets that could improve new generation of computers and optical fiber
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09 Nov 2017
“Glass sponges” have silica-based skeletal elements with an astonishing behavior: their spicules behave better than any current optical fiber. Scientists from the CEAB-CSIC are involved in an international research to understand the properties that would explain the optical properties of these sponges and to apply in the future generation of computers and optical fiber.
Unveiling the role of histone H1 protein as a genome stabilizer
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26 Oct 2017
Scientists at the Barcelona Molecular Biology Institute of the CSIC research to unveil the secrets of heterochromatin, the most silenced part of the human genome. Factors related to its regulation or misregulation can be involved in growing, development and diseases. Two recent works unveil the essential role of one of these factors, the intriguing histone H1.
Three European projects focused on the study of marine sponges
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04 Jul 2017
Marine sponges and the deepest oceanic ecosystems are a source of molecules with potential biomedical uses. Three European projects are aimed at developing genomic tools to use them as a resource in a sustainable way avoiding therefore over-exploitation.
Nanogenerator that stimulates living cells developed
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17 Jul 2017
The nanogenerator creates a small electric field surrounding the cell without any external power source The development, led by the IMB-CNM and the UAB, is aimed at developing electrical stimulation therapies at cellular scale.
The search strategy of T-cells can inspire technology
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26 Jun 2017
Search strategies of living organisms or cells can help to develop of technology aimed at rescuing people, locating animals or detecting pathogens, among others. At the Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CEAB-CSIC) scientists work in this research field. In a recent work, they have studied the search strategy of T-cells to find pathogens.
