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The ACT Lab - Advanced Cell Technology laboratory - continues its outreach activities. This time, the team visited the pre-school Centro Escolar de Cantanhede, and for two hours, we talked about cells, microscopes, and what a scientist's life is like. Observing different tissues of the human body under the microscope and their complexity was a very interesting and exiting moment for all. Perceiving the size of our cells and the structures they formed was like unwrapping a pre

June 6th, 2024, was no ordinary school day for the curious minds of Escola Básica Marquês de Marialva, Cantanhede. As part of the science...

Cláudia Deus, a researcher at the Multidisciplinary Institute of Aging (MIA-Portugal), has been awarded the prestigious L’Oréal Portugal Honor Medal for Women in Science 2024. The award ceremony took place on June 5th at the Centro Cultural de Belém, in Lisbon. This award celebrates Cláudia Deus’s outstanding work in the field of Parkinson’s disease research. Her project explores a groundbreaking approach using extracellular vesicles as delivery vehicles for synthetic mRNA en