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Latest IBEC publications:
P. Rodríguez, A. Brugués, A. Marín-Llauradó, V. Conte, G. Solanas, E. Batlle, J. J. Fredberg, P. Roca-Cusachs, R. Sunyer, X. Trepat (2017). Long-lived force patterns and deformation waves at repulsive epithelial boundaries. Nature Materials, DOI 10.1038/nmat4972
Garreta, Elena, Oria, Roger, Tarantino, Carolina, Pla-Roca, Mateu, Prado, Patricia, Fernández-Avilés, Francisco, Campistol, Josep Maria, Samitier, Josep, Montserrat, Nuria, (2017). Tissue engineering by decellularization and 3D bioprinting. Materials Today
López-Martínez M, Artés J, Sarasso V, Carminati M, Díez-Pérez I, Sanz F, Gorostiza P. (2017). Differential Electrochemical Conductance Imaging at the Nanoscale. Small, 1700958
Gómez-Santacana, X., Pittolo, S., Rovira, X., Lopez, M., Zussy, C., Dalton, James A. R., Faucherre, A., Jopling, C., Pin, J.-P., Ciruela, F., Goudet, C., Giraldo, J., Gorostiza, P., Llebaria, A. (2017). Illuminating phenylazopyridines to photoswitch metabotropic glutamate receptors: From the flask to the animals. ACS Central Science 3, 1, 81-91
Malinverno, C., Corallino, S., Giavazzi, F., Bergert, M., Li, Q., Leoni, M., Disanza, A., Frittoli, E., Oldani, A., Martini, E., Lendenmann, T., Deflorian, G. et al (2017). Endocytic reawakening of motility in jammed epithelia. Nature Materials 16, 587–596
Silvia Pujals, Kai Tao, Adrià Terradellas, Ehud Gazit and Lorenzo Albertazzi (2017). Studying structure and dynamics of self-assembled peptide nanostructures using fluorescence and super resolution microscopy. Chemical Communications, 53, 7294-7297

Research news

Cell collisions reveal a new type of wave

September 12, 2017

Researchers at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) have observed, for the first time, mechanical waves that form after collisions between cellular tissues.

After a collision, cells are pushed and deformed into waves that travel at a speed of three millimeters a day. This unexpected behavior defies what we know about cellular dynamics, and could be relevant to understand embryonic development or metastasis.

Mechanical waves – such as seismic waves, sound, or waves in the sea – are a phenomenon easily explained by the laws of physics: when two particles collide, a wave travels through the surrounding material.

Other news

IBEC to represent Catalonia in EC’s Smart Specialisation Platform

September 18, 2017

IBEC is to be the official representative of Catalonia in the European Commission’s Smart Specialisation Platform for Industrial Modernisation (S3P-Industry) in the area of Medical Technology.

S3P-Industry, which was launched in 2016, is one of three Smart Specialisation Platforms created by the EC to help regions develop or share infrastructures such as testing facilities, pilot plants or data centres, with the ultimate goal of fostering interregional cooperation in specialist areas and creating an investment pipeline of mature projects.