Editorial / Analysis
Brain drain / brain gain (with a focus on Spain)
Jesús Salgado, ICMol, Valencia (Spain)
Science is a global activity. Hence, countries need to adopt open human-resource policies to be competitive internationally. There are many reasons to defend transnational mobility in science, but a simple and practical one is that the chances to attract the most talented individuals increase with the number and diversity of possible candidates, which will obviously be larger in the global pool than in regional or national pools… […Read More…]
beyond Biophysics
Nanoscience and Biophysics
A conversation with Txema Pitarke
David de Sancho, CIC nanoGUNE & Ikerbasque, Donostia – San Sebastián (Spain)
Txema Pitarke (Bilbao, 1960) has since 2000 been a full Professor of condensed matter physics at the University of the Basque Country – EHU/UPV. I meet him in his office of director of CIC nanoGUNE (Donostia-San Sebastián) to discuss about the relationship between biophysics and nanoscience. In fact, his research has never come close to the realm of biophysics… […Read More…]
cool Biophysics
Systems biophysics
Jose M. G. Vilar, Biofisika Institute (CSIC, UPV/EHU) & Ikerbasque, Bilbao (Spain)
Mainstream biophysics has traditionally focused on biological systems as single entities, such as a macromolecule, a membrane, a cell, or a tissue. The objective is typically to study physical properties of the system, such as force-extension curves of macromolecules or elastic properties of cells, or to use physical approaches to obtain information about biologically relevant properties, such as the structure of macromolecular complexes. This single-entity view of biophysics… […Read More…]