Three projects on cell tracking systems establish joint collaboration
On the 2nd of November, three Horizon 2020 European research projects funded under the call Nanotechnologies for imaging cellular transplants and regenerative processes in vivo met online to discuss collaboration opportunities. The meeting counted on the collaboration...
What are gold nanoparticles and how are they made?
We all know what gold looks like: yellow and solid. However, gold nanoparticles (GNPs) are quite different: invisible to the eye, changing colour and often contained in liquid. GNPs have different sizes ranging from a few nanometres to a few hundreds, and present...
How does a cell-based therapy work?
Regenerative medicine which includes tissue engineering, gene therapies and cell-based therapies has expanded rapidly over the last decade and has a great potential to treat and cure human diseases. Specifically, cell-based therapies are developing as an efficacious...
New article published by Vall d’Hebron Research Institute: Modelling the skeletal muscle injury recovery
The Medical Molecular Imaging Group of the Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), in cooperation with the Cell therapy and Surgery in Congenital Malformations Laboratory of the VHIR and the Health & Biomedicine Department of Leitat recently published a paper in...
A 3D animation to discover the objectives of nTRACK
The nTRACK consortium is proud to present a 3D animation video to explain the principle of the project. We are developing a safe, scalable and highly sensitive multi-modal cell nano-imaging agent ready for testing in humans. Stem cells will be labelled with nTRACK...
nTRACK Strives to Track Stem Cells in Real-Time
Download pdf version Principle of the project There is a need of tools to evaluate and predict the safety and success of cell-based treatments in earlier stages. The current lack of methods providing real-time tracking of transplanted cells and knowledge on their...
BIOEMTECH wins 3rd Best Poster Award at 24th Greek Ιnterdisciplinary Radiology Conference
From the 14th to the 16th of November, the 24th Greek Ιnterdisciplinary Radiology Conference took place in Patras (Greece) where BIOEMTECH was awarded the 3rd Best Poster Award.
24 Month Meeting in Cambridge hosted by CNT
On the 29th of October, the nTRACK consortium met in Cambridge at the Trinity Hall College for its 24 month meeting. During this meeting, partners discussed all work packages, presented the progress made so far and the current bottlenecks. Work packages include the...
High School Students Discover Applications of Gold Nanoparticles Thanks to EscoLab
A group of 20 high school students from Olot came to Leitat facilities in Barcelona 22@ this Wednesday 23rd of October for a visit to discover the realm of nanomaterials. The event took place in the framework of EscoLab, the program of the town hall of Barcelona...
CT-TRACS Committee Meeting in Washington: RIVM presenting nTRACK
On the 26th and 27th of September, the Cell Therapy - TRAcking, Circulation, & Safety (CT-TRACS) Committee of HESI will meet in Washington. The Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI) is a non-profit institution whose mission is to collaboratively...