Adela Muñoz Páez publishes a biography that subverts clichés about Marie Curie
For years, the figure of Maria Sklodowska, Marie Curie (Warsaw, Poland, 1867 – Passy, France, 1934), has been distorted by commonplaces about her work and personal life. In scientific history textbooks, films and media articles, she has generally been portrayed...
Ernesto Carmona and Jesús Campos, winners of the 10th Javier Benjumea Puigcerver Award
Seville, 8 April 2012. The CicCartuja researchers Ernesto Carmona Guzmán and Jesús Campos Manzano today received the 10th Javier Benjumea Puigcerver Research Prize for a scientific work of notable importance in the applied field. The research is entitled Catalytic...
The 2012 cicCartuja Ebro Foods Research Award recognises four young scientists
Seville, 5 April 2013. The researchers Lola González García and Julián Parra Barranco have won the 2012 cicCartuja Ebro Foods Research Award, which was presented today at the Isla de la Cartuja Scientific Research Centre (cicCartuja), a joint centre of the Spanish...
Inhibition of a sugar receptor protects against the negative effects of stroke
A study involving scientists from the Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas (IIQ), an institute belonging to CicCartuja, has discovered that the MBL lectin sugar receptor plays a key role in brain damage associated with stroke. The study, published in the journal...