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Cellulose-based magnetoelectric composites
07/07/2017A new paper co-authored by Ikerbasque researcher Senentxu Lanceros successfully demonstrates the concept of exploring piezoelectric biopolymers in magnetoelectric composites, particularly cellulose, which is increasingly employed as a renewable, low-cost, easily processable and degradable...
The size of animals dating back 100-350 million years ago inferred from resurrected proteins
07/07/2017The Ikerbasque researcher Raúl Pérez-Jiménez of nanoGUNE’s Nanobiomechanics group has led a piece of research in which, starting from the sequences of the titin protein of a selection of modern day animals, they inferred the phylogenetic tree of tetrapods (all animals with four limbs including...
Aitor Hierro gets a Leonardo grant to develop a project on Alzheimer
07/05/2017Aitor Hierro, Ikerbasque Research Professor at CIC bioGUNE, has been awarded a prestigious Leonardo grant on biomedicine (funded by BBVA Foundation) to develop a project wth the aim of characterizing a possible therapeutic target still unexplored against alzheimer's disease.
Sustainability whack-a-mole
06/21/2017In the world of arcades, the whack-a-mole is a classic. The game, in which players use a mallet to hit randomly appearing toy moles back into their holes, is an innocent reminder that fixing a problem in one place may only cause others to pop up elsewhere. But within sustainability, such problem...
Jesús Jiménez Barbero, elected as new member of the Euroepan Academy of Sciences
06/16/2017CIC bioGUNE Scientific Director and Ikerbasque Research Professor Jesús Jiménez-Barbero has been elected as a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences.
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