He leads the Graphene Lab of the University of Granada, one of the most complete public labs in Europe. Franciso Gámiz has collaborates in several European projects, and his group coordinates an over 4.5 million euros European project about ‘The Internet of Things. In addition, they are working on graphene biosensors able to detect cancer […]
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Enrique Llimona, the ultraman athlete who achieved the greatest sport challenge in history
Enrique Llimona, from Huelva, is an amateur sportsman, “a normal person” as he assures. However, in 2016 he completed an impossible triathlon trial composed of: an 11.9 kilometres swimming competition, a run of 100 kilometres and a 525 kilometres bicycle race. It took him 41 hours and 45 minutes to complete it. This is the […]
Alejandra Guerra, searching for the cellular mechanisms of cancer
Alejandra Guerra discovered that she wanted to dedicate her life to Science when she was barely nine years old. Currently, this biochemist born in Jerez, works at the Institute for Chemical Research of Seville. She studies the modifications of a protein, the cytochrome C, implied in programmed cell death. These alterations are the cause of […]
Fernando Henao and Esteban Nogales, haunting the genetic mutation that causes breast cancer
Doctors Fernando Henao and Esteban Nogales are part of the Oncology team of the Virgen Macarena Hospital. After a year of research, they have discovered that in 20% of the triple negative breast cancer cases, which is the most aggressive type, there is a genetic mutation in the patient. This discovery facilitates the early detection […]