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Selected Research Fellows 2017
07/18/2017The list of selected candidates in our Research Fellow 2017 call is now available.
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...
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...
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...
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