Happy to share that several members of our research group attended the XXVIII Scientific Meeting organized by the Spanish Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (SEMA) from June 26-28 in Vila Real, Portugal. Our PhD researchers Assia Touzani and Lucía Ramos presented the works “Biocompatibility of platinum nanoparticles: study in neuronal cells and Drosophila melanogaster” and …
Happy to announce that our colleague Emelyn Mathot has won the Poster Award for Young Researchers at The European Group for Research on Aging and Physical Activity (EGRAPA) conference in Kaunas, Lithuania last week, presenting our work «Are circulating inflammatory markers in older adults influenced by physical interventions?» This work stems from a collaborative effort …
Poster Award for our work in the EGRAPA Conference (Lithuania) Leer más »
Several students from the IES Alfonso X O Sabio (Cambre) center visited the NanoToxGen laboratory at the CICA during last year. They learned about the synthesis, characterization and testing of compounds with potential biomedical applications that we are currently carried out in our group, kindly explained by Dr. Avecilla. They showed high interested in the …
Several researchers have joined NanoToxGen team this year. Raúl Celis Zamora, exchange student from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (México), will stay with us between January and July, 2024. Carmen Teresa del Cabo Rodríguez is a student from the Master in Chemical Investigation Research and Industrial Chemistry performing her Master’s Dissertation in our lab. Tania …
NanoToxGen team incorporates several students for the next months Leer más »
On December 21th, the PhD Dissertation of our Researcher Antía Sar Rañó took place. She defended very successfully her work, entitled «Synthesis and characterization of hydrazones and their vanadium complexes, and study of their possible pharmacological applications” at CICA – Interdisciplinary Center of Chemistry and Biology (University of A Coruña). The Doctoral Thesis was supervised …
NanoToxGen researchers collaborated on an international study that demonstrates for the first time the association between infection with Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite transmitted by cats, and frailty in older adults. The full article is available in the following link: Toxoplasma gondii IgG Serointensity is Positively Associated with Frailty Related news: How a dirty litter box …
Our PhD researcher Assia Touzani presented some of her Thesis results at the last CICA Happy Hour session last week in a talk entitled “Platinum nanoparticles: evaluation of their cytotoxic and genotoxic potential for a safe use”. She performed a great dissertation on the high potential of platinum nanoparticles for biomedical applications and the lack …
Happy to share our last collaborative paper, recently published in Nanotoxicology journal, addressing the cytotoxic and genotoxic effects of different amorphous silica nanomaterials on rat alveolar epithelial cells as a predictive model for pulmonary toxicity in vivo. The work showed the potential of several amorphous silica nanomaterials to induced DNA damage, cell cycle alterations and …
Happy to share our last work describing the effects of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles on glial cells and zebrafish, and the influence of released Zn ions on the obtained results. The study was performed in the frame of NanoAssess project (enlace a Proyecto), funded by Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. ZnO nanoparticles are among …
Our last study on zinc oxide nanoparticles toxicity is already available Leer más »
NanoToxGen researchers, Vanessa Valdiglesias and Natalia Fernández, shared the last results of our ongoing projects on nontoxicity assessment on the Nanoscience and Advanced Materials area seminars, monthly organized by the CICA research center. Natalia Fernández Bertólez was in charge of the first seminar of the group: “Biocompatibility of CeO2 nanoparticles for application in diagnosis and …
