A recent study led by B-BRIGHTER researchers investigates the combined effects of ECM stiffness and simulated microgravity on breast cancer progression, aiming to elucidate their potential interplay and underlying molecular mechanisms.

One more year, Elena Martinez and Nuria Torras took part in different activities to defend the access of women to STEAM careers and scientific knowledge, in the frame of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

Last 23^rd of January, Nuria Torras took part at the Investors Day, the final ceremony of the program “Industry of Knowledge” and gave a pitch to explain READY-GUT, a project strongly related to B-BRIGHTER that is developing intestinal 3D tissues models in a plate ready to be used.

On October 23–24, 2024, the OpenLab at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm hosted the B-BRIGHTER BioInnovation Entrepreneurship Workshop, a dynamic and collaborative event aimed at guiding young researchers in transforming academic innovations into real-world solutions.

As every year, the European Researchers' Night takes place in the last week of September, and once again the B-BRIGHTER project was present. This year, Marcel Sorribas took part in a round table on the use of animals in research. In addition, an infographic explaining the project is available on the Catalan website of the event.

The demand for engineered skin tissues has surged for both in vitro and in vivo applications, and one of the key points to succeed is to choose an appropriate scaffold material. In this scenario, B-Brighter researchers at IBEC has just published a work describing a new bioink designed for engineering human skin constructs using norbornene-pullulan-based hydrogels.

Inés Roucou, a 16-year-old student, could benefit from a 2-week stay at the Laboratory of Biomimetic Systems for Cell Engineering at IBEC in Barcelona. She learned about bioengineering and topics related to B-BRIGHTER project, guided by the researchers Núria and Marcel.

The Würzburg Initiative 3R celebrated its first International Conference to provide a broad communication platform to enable exchange about “3R” among researchers from the diverse sectors related with animal experimentation. It represented an effort to improve the welfare of animals in research, and Brigitte Angres and Louise Breideband were there to talk about the 3D bioprinting technology from B-BRIGHTER.