We shared World Bee Day with the neurobiologist Javier Navas who, for several years, has been combining his scientific career in a hospital in Madrid with his passion for honeybees and apiculture.
Today, cell cultures are considered essential tools in biomedical research and regenerative medicine. They allow us to create disease models or biological systems for drug screening more quickly and economically than traditional animal models. However, it has taken more than a century for scientists to fine-tune cell culture techniques in order to obtain physiologically relevant…
The energy crisis in Europe resulting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has once again demonstrated how dependent we are on an energy source controlled by very few countries in the world. Europe is now heading towards an uncertain winter.
Javier Iglesias-Bexiga (Madrid, Spain, 1981) is a biologist with a postgraduate degree in forensic anthropology. He is also a founding member of ArqueoAntro, an interdisciplinary team whose aim is to recover, preserve and disseminate Spanish historical memory, particularly the memory of the victims of the Civil War and the Francoist repression that followed.
Four years ago, molecular biologist Meme Pacheco (Málaga, Spain, 1980) quit her scientific career at the Spanish National Research Council laboratories in Madrid and moved to Soria, a small city on the Duero River.
We talk with Maria Zamfir (Bucharest, Romania, 1991), the founding mother of The Neuron Family, a collection of cartoon neurons that she created to explain the diversity of cells involved in the different brain functions.
Beatriz Aurioles (Almería, Spain, 1994) is the founder of @en_psignos, the Instagram account created to bring health psychology closer to the deaf community.
