Roberto Portillo Lara

Imperial Bioengineering | Wilbe

[Wilbe @wilbe_science]

Academia has summer holidays.
Startups have summer.

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[Horizon Magazine @HorizonMagEU]

Robotic third thumbs and naturalistic implants are no longer the stuff of a distant future. Now scientists are studying how these technologies could affect our brain.
Read more ➡️ https://t.co/9ltR2vjFWy

#HorizonEU

[Roberto Portillo Lara @Portillo_Lara]

Check out our interview for @HorizonMagEU, where we comment on some of the future implications of interfacing #bionics with the nervous system.

[Horizon Magazine @HorizonMagEU]

Rapid developments in the field of wearable robotics and bionic implants are bringing the promise of human-machine integration much closer.

Learn more ➡️ https://t.co/9ltR2v1wIq

#HorizonEU

[Roberto Portillo Lara @Portillo_Lara]

Our group at @ImperialBioeng is looking for an outstanding PhD candidate to join the Living Bioelectronics team. Come build the next generation of neural interfaces with us at @imperialcollege https://t.co/BgzrCNZjKx

[Roberto Portillo Lara @Portillo_Lara]

Light mentally teleports mice to another time and place https://t.co/UvjZ9wtUUr

[Imperial Bioengineering @ImperialBioeng]

At our next Departmental Seminar on 25 Nov, 4PM GMT, we'll be joined by Drs @elinevanderkruk & Andy Tay, former postdoctoral fellows who are now carrying out incredibly impressive biomechanics & mechanobiology related research.

🔁Please register and RT!
https://t.co/ntJAHuun8t

[Roberto Portillo Lara @Portillo_Lara]

Uneasy and insecure, postdoctoral researchers worldwide are experiencing great distress around their career prospects, workload and workplace culture, among other issues. https://t.co/hLMmZf6S7L

[Roberto Portillo Lara @Portillo_Lara]

Mario Molina (1943–2020) https://t.co/mP5O49wVk4

[Roberto Portillo Lara @Portillo_Lara]

Nearly 2,000 years ago, a cloud of scorching ash from Mount Vesuvius buried a young man and turned some of his brain to glass. https://t.co/Ba5gJMMEik

[Roberto Portillo Lara @Portillo_Lara]

“Don’t be too sure of yourself. No matter how smart or well educated you are, you can be deceived“ James Randi (1928–2020) https://t.co/tauC2lMpcl

[Roberto Portillo Lara @Portillo_Lara]

@Bitbrain_EN Thanks! Looking forward to read about all the cool projects you’ll be supporting!

[Roberto Portillo Lara @Portillo_Lara]

After the Nobel Prize, what’s next for CRISPR in biomedicine?

[Nature Biomedical Engineering @natBME]

In less than a decade, the genome-editing technology now recognized by the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has impacted the biological and biomedical sciences widely. What’s next for CRISPR in biomedicine?

https://t.co/WzRXnd8TkP

[Roberto Portillo Lara @Portillo_Lara]

An RNA-editing tool that ‘timestamps’ RNA molecules reveals not only which genes in a cell are turned on at any one time, but also when they were turned on https://t.co/ZSzwd4hG6k

[Roberto Portillo Lara @Portillo_Lara]

Borderlands 3 is using its millions of gamers to help map the human gut microbiome.

[Nature Biotechnology @NatureBiotech]

Leveling up citizen science https://t.co/eCzJTGm8zw

[Roberto Portillo Lara @Portillo_Lara]

Should academic science reconsider the definition of success? https://t.co/WeDoQ4FVll

[Roberto Portillo Lara @Portillo_Lara]

How Cells Build Organisms. Organizational control mechanism allows cells to form tissues and anatomical structures in the developing embryo https://t.co/yMUsqMTJXM

[Roberto Portillo Lara @Portillo_Lara]

Reviving cells after a heart attack https://t.co/mBGjlHWwdk via @wyssinstitute

[Roberto Portillo Lara @Portillo_Lara]

Check out our collaboration with #MGH to develop a light-activated #bioadhesive that improves survival and prevents scar formation after a #heartattack, published recently in Journal of… https://t.co/33JwD3DMaf

[Fariba Dehghani @DehghaniFariba]

It was a great experience to meet @TECcampusGDL academics and amazing motivated students and share our research outcomes @Usydfoodcentre @FarshadOveissi @SNaficy @chiarinafois . I hope we can host some of these bright researchers soon.