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Brain Health for Life. Preventing Brain-Related Disability
15/12/2020
Brain diseases are the main cause of disability, with a greater impact than cancer or cardiovascular diseases. A group of top international experts met for a session of B·Debate to discuss the importance of this problem and the latest advances.Read more
New antibiotics strategies (reversing a dystopian future)
12/11/2019
Resistance to antibiotics currently causes 700,000 deaths a year. To minimize the problem, we’re going to need new antibiotics with non-traditional mechanisms of action. Experts propose offering incentives to encourage public-private collaboration. To discuss the importance of this problem, the latest advances and the difficulties of solving it, a group of top international experts met in a Debate "New antibiotics strategies (reversing a dystopian future)"Read more
Synthetic biology: Engineering life for the medicine of the future
14/06/2019
Synthetic biology in recent years has made important and radical breakthroughs like modifying the human genome, gene therapies and modern immunotherapy to fight cancer. As well as modifying bacteria and microorganisms so they take on new properties and can be used in medicine, for recycling or to fight the climate crisis. To discuss the latest advances and debates regarding synthetic biology, international experts met in a debate “Synthetic biology: Engineering life for the medicine of the future”Read more
Sleep: the Fourth Pillar of Health

Sleep: The Fourth Pillar of Health
18/01/2019
A lack of quality sleep has consequences that go much further than just being tired the next day. If it persists over time, it is associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity and, even, cancer. In order to discuss all of these issues, world-renowned physicians and scientists, as well as technology and social stakeholders, met for the debate ‘Sleep: the Fourth Pillar of Health’Read more
When development meets stress: Understanding developmental reprogramming upon pathogenesis in plants

When development meets stress: Understanding developmental reprogramming upon pathogenesis in plants
03/09/2018
It is now possible to predict which diseases will affect plants each year (and how they will defend themselves), to suggest which plant variety (of rice, for example) could be more resistant the following year. Global experts met at B·Debate to discuss the concept of pathogenesis in plants.Read more
Open science: from values to practice. Building a roadmap for transformative change

Open science: a path to make it real
19/11/2018
The scientific practices that are currently used meet important and diverse criticisms: having to pay for access to most publications, reproducibility issues, an assessment system that is not sufficiently based on bibliographic indicators and the scarce influence the general society has on decision-making and path-setting, among others. Researchers from around the world gathered at B·Debate to discuss the concept of open science.Read more
Epigenetic Mechanisms in Health and Disease. Barcelona Conference on Epigenetics and Cancer

Epigenetic Mechanisms in Health and Disease. Barcelona Conference on Epigenetics and Cancer
20/04/2018
Genetic information is encoded in our DNA, which is metaphorically known as an instruction manual. We do not yet understand many of these mechanisms but they are so important that alterations in the system can lead to numerous very serious problems . International experts gathered together to discuss some of the latest, most important advances in this field.Read more
Bioengineering for Healthy Ageing. Adding Life to Years

Bioengineering for Healthy Ageing. Adding Life to Years
05/03/2018
Seniors have more illnesses than the rest of the population. And, furthermore, they often have chronic diseases that can be very incapacitating. In this context, bioengineering can offer many solutions in various areas, researchers from around the world met for a B·Debate session to debate the role of bioengineering in active ageing.Read more
Women's Cancer

Women's Cancer
23/02/2018
Every year, three and a half million women around the world die of cancer, six thousands of them in Catalonia. Some of these tumors are only found in women, like ovarian and cervical cancer. Researchers from around the world gathered at B·Debate to discuss the key factors of women's cancer.Read more
Integrative Societies and Disability: Open and Smart cities from social sciences

On disability: rights in open, smart cities
04/12/2017
According to the WHO, more than 1 billion people have some sort of disability. Evolving cities and emerging technology offer up new opportunities for integration, but also difficulties that are hard to identify and overcome. World experts gathered at B·Debate to promote scientific debate on the subject.Read more