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Biology and biomedicine

A chemical compound that reduces breast cancer metastasis, tested in vivo in preclinical trials
The study, conducted in vivo in mice, reveals tumour reduction and almost complete elimination of metastasis. The compound uses a peptide, called M...
Monday, 10 February 2025
Why have cockroaches retained a triplicated gene for 350 million years?
Why do organisms sometimes have duplicated or triplicated genes? What can this teach us about evolution and our biology? Cockroaches have up to thr...
Tuesday, 31 December 2024
JEMCA, electron microscopy to advance research in structural biology and new materials
It is a pioneering facility that houses two high-end electron microscopes: one to resolve the structure of large protein and nucleic acid complexes an...
Friday, 03 March 2023
Spin-off LabsinLove develops strategies to target brain tumours with precision
One of the most aggressive brain tumors, glioblastoma multiforme, remains a major challenge due to its resistance to conventional therapies and hig...
Wednesday, 19 March 2025

Environment

Adsorbent and recoverable micro- and nano-particles to decontaminate aqueous media
A team from the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM-CSIC) is working on a method to decontaminate and recover organic compounds from...
Thursday, 24 April 2025
Artificial reefs that mimic natural ones to fight against biodiversity loss
The SEAREG project is developing a standard methodology to promote the growth of macroalgae in artificial substrates with algae of the genus Cystos...
Tuesday, 29 April 2025
Checking Ocean Health: Nutrient Analysis at the Institut de Ciències del Mar
The Chemistry Laboratory of the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) offers a Nutrient Analysis Service to institutions and companies, where th...
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
An app offers guided routes of the Pyrenean water ecosystems
CSIC and CREAF scientists who are working together at two labs, the Limnological Observatory of the Pyrinees (LOOP) and the Movement Ecology Labora...
Tuesday, 23 December 2014

Agro-food technologies

New gluten-degrading protein could allow better management of coeliac disease
A recombinant protein, developed by researchers at the CSIC's Barcelona Institute of Molecular Biology, degrades gluten more effectively than curre...
Wednesday, 19 February 2025
Deciphering how bacterial cellulose promotes plant tissue regeneration
A research team has discovered the molecular mechanisms that explain how bacterial cellulose patches stimulate wound regeneration in plants. The pr...
Wednesday, 26 February 2025
El Instituto de Ganadería de Montaña, acreditación ISO para el análisis de pienso animal
El Instituto de Ganadería de Montaña (IGM), centro mixto del CSIC y de la Universidad de León, acaba de acreditar parte de los laboratorios del ...
Friday, 22 July 2011
CSIC co-develops a “vegetable meat” using a Mediterranean legume
This ingredient is low in saturated fat, rich in dietary fibre and its composition is based on carob. The product, called Leggie, has been developed b...
Thursday, 01 July 2021

Humanities and Social Sciences

Eighth album from the collection 'Música Poética' (Poetic Music)
This joint project of the CSIC and Lauda Música is aiming at recovering musical heritage and rescue from oblivion many works found in libraries an...
Friday, 13 December 2013
Economic analysis and game theory to improve cross-over kidney transplant programmes
Cross-over kidney transplant increases the chances of finding compatible donors and the survival of patients. According to 2019 data, Spain, the Un...
Monday, 04 November 2024

Physical technologies

Processes developed to recover valuable metals from used batteries
Scientists at the CENIM are working to recover and reuse strategic metals from batteries. One of their processes makes it possible to obtain nickel...
Tuesday, 08 April 2025
Anna Laromaine: "We go into the NEXTGEM project without a preconceived or biased idea of electromagnetic fields"
Anna Laromaine is a researcher in the Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites group at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC). This ...
Tuesday, 02 April 2024
The CSIC’s Micro and Nanofabrication Clean Room achieves ISO9001 quality certification
The Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM, CSIC) receives this seal for the processes involved in the design, development and production...
Wednesday, 27 September 2023
CSIC spin- off will develop flexible carbon-based chips for monitoring sensors
The FlexiiC spin-off aims to design system-on-chip (SoC) solutions applied to smart systems and the Internet of Things, and to reinvent the world o...
Friday, 28 February 2025

New materials

Searching for More Economical and Efficient Energy Storage Systems for Renewables
Currently, the most advanced electrochemical energy storage systems are based on vanadium salts as the electrolyte. However, vanadium is an expensi...
Monday, 30 December 2024
New Gadolinium-Based Compound Enables Cryogenic Temperatures for Future Electronics
A team led by researchers from ICMAB-CSIC and the University of Barcelona (UB) has designed a new molecular compound based on gadolinium, which ope...
Monday, 22 April 2024
The new CSIC-ALBA Joint Laboratory to optimise batteries, superconductors and catalysis towards the energy transition is up and running.
This new infrastructure represents an important step forward in fostering green energy innovation between research groups and industry. The laborat...
Monday, 16 December 2024
The ICN2/CSIC spin-off LightNET Carbon Capture successfully completes a pilot test of a CO2-capturing mortar.
Capturing and storing CO₂ from the air is one of the strategies to reduce greenhouse gases. In its search for innovative solutions to mitigate th...
Friday, 13 September 2024

Chemistry

Method to recover bismuth as a critical raw material during copper production
A CSIC team has developed a method for recovering high value-added bismuth from the waste generated in primary copper production, which includes an...
Monday, 29 April 2024
Obtaining coltan, the “black gold” of electronics, from the waste of an abandoned mine site
A team of CSIC researchers has developed a physical-chemical process to obtain niobium and tantalum, two of the most commonly used minerals in electro...
Monday, 02 March 2020
CSIC presents its new Chemolibrary
A great deal of effort goes into the research and synthesis of new molecules, an effort that is wasted if these molecules are ‘lost’ because th...
Thursday, 19 September 2024
More sustainable cosmetic products composed only of bioactive ingredients
The CSIC and the spin-off Bioinicia develop new products based on a new technology, already patented, that allows compounds to be encapsulated in ultr...
Thursday, 01 February 2024

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