“This is a particularly exciting time for the life sciences: technological advances have reached a level of maturity that enables us to tackle major healthcare challenges. The convergence of AI and biotechnology is allowing us to make a major leap forward in biodesign. We can no longer just ‘edit’ or ‘write’ DNA; we are beginning to ‘speak’ DNA.”

“Our day-to-day work focuses on answering questions to understand why certain chemical processes do or do not work. We then use this knowledge to design materials that improve these chemical transformations.”

“Our research helps to strengthen the validity of causal estimates of the impact of immigration and offers a more complete understanding of how labour markets adapt to demographic and institutional changes.”

“Our goal is to understand organisms’ tolerance thresholds and defence mechanisms in response to pollution and climate change.“

In their labs, they work with cells and data. However, all the research activities of these two scientists are driven by the same aspiration: improving the care of cancer patients and of people with neurodevelopmental disorders.

The brain, the last frontier. This is the journey of two scientists who continue to explore the most complex organ in the body in search of new therapies for diseases that until recently were incurable.

Since there was life on Earth, an evolutionary race has been underway between pathogens and the immune system. Nearly four billion years later, scientists are learning to use the immune system to improve people’s health outcomes.

From its first beat in the mother’s womb – when it measures just two millimetres –, the heart is an almost perfect machine: remarkably reliable, setting the pace of human life without skipping a beat. Borja Ibáñez and Guadalupe Sabio teach us how to take proper care of the heart.

Gone are the days when there was nothing you could do in the face of a cancer diagnosis. Thanks to research, our understanding of the disease has greatly improved; we can now prevent it and successfully treat most cases.

How do ideas that change the world come about? Two acclaimed scientists that also moonlight as artists (one is a musician and the other, a painter) explain the importance of intuition and creativity in research works.

Cells play the starring role in life’s great drama. Two cell-obsessed scientists explain what led them to cell biology and how they decipher the most intimate secrets of life in the lab.