Study evaluating toxic effects of silica nanomaterials published in Nanotoxicology journal

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 …

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Our last study on zinc oxide nanoparticles toxicity is already available

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 …

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Area Seminars at CICA

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 …

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Participation in the II Spanish Economic Forum

Past April, 12th and 13th, the II Spanish Economic Forum ‘La Galicia que viene’ took place in the Palexco building in A Coruña. This symposium was aimed to analyse the challenges Galicia currently addresses, including politics, economics, Galician health, industry and technology or the objectives of the 2030 Agenda, and it had the participation of …

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CICA Ambassador Award for Vanessa Valdiglesias

Dr. Vanessa Valdiglesias was recognized with the CICA 2023 Ambassador Award by the Interdisciplinary Center for Chemistry and Biology – CICA of the University of A Coruña, for her work in scientific outreach activities and for her contribution to making visible the work developed in the center. Dr. Valdiglesias shared recognition with Dr. Armand Hernandez …

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StemBach Programme

Students from IES Eusebio da Guarda (A Coruña) who completed their practical training in our laboratory within the STEMbach program (Bachelor of Excellence in Science and Technology), defended, on February 1st their work «In vitro study of the cytotoxicity and genotoxicity of gold nanospheres on glial cells” at the Interdisciplinary Center for Chemistry and Biology …

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Nano2Clinic Conference attendance

Past February 23, 2023, our colleague Dr. Natalia Fernández Bertólez assisted to the 2nd CA17140 Nano2Clinic Short-Term Scientific Mission Virtual Conference. She performed two oral communications about the “Evaluation and validation of the suitability of the standardized in vitro mammalian cell Micronucleus (MN) test (OECD TG No. 487) for testing genotoxicity of nanodrugs with potential …

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Attendance to the “Encontro Galego-Portugués de Química” International Congress

Last November (2022) several members of our group travelled to Santiago de Compostela (Spain) to participate in the XXVI Encontro Galego-Portugués de Química held from the 16th to the 18th. Four poster communications were presented in the congress with some of our latest results. In this international congress, in which several European countries participated, they …

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Publication selected for the cover of European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry

Dr. Avecilla from our group collaborated in a study on different vanadium complexes and their potential biocatalytic applications. In the study, two different types of dioxidomolybdenum(VI) Complexes of N,N’-capped tetrapodal ligands, which are controlled by the substituents at 3- and 5-positions on the phenyl group, were prepared and characterized. Both complexes showed excellent biomimetic catalytic …

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