Vanillin is the aromatic compound responsible for the characteristic flavour of natural vanilla. As the agricultural production of this aromatic compound is not sufficient to cover nowadays’ great demand...
Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona together with other research groups have analyzed the progression and modeled the spatio-temporal distribution of the epidemic of the new Middle Eastern...
The synthesis and characterization of different crystalline materials and synthetic biology allow for obtaining porous materials with different metals, such as copper (Cu) or zinc (Zn). Researchers from the UAB have studied the role of...
In a new study in the journal Science China Life Sciences authors developed a high-throughput quantitative-PCR-based chip, Quantitative microbial...
Contagious mastitis causes inflammation in the mammary glands in herds of dairy cows. In this study, an association between teat skin colonization with the pathogens that cause mastitis,...
A nutrition intervention study published by researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Rovira i Virgili University shows that eating 60 grams of nuts per day in men who maintain a Western-style diet (poor in fruit and vegetables and rich in fat and meat) increases the...
The mechanisms of transmission of knowledge are important to understand societies and different cultures. In this article, the current mechanisms of transmission of traditional knowledge is analyzed via the study of...
Industrial activities generate wastewater and gases with high sulfate content. Sulfate is not harmful but if it is disposed into sewers or rivers, some bacteria transform them into hydrogen...
A new study by the Immunology of Diabetes Group, led by Marta Vives-Pi at the IGTP-UAB in collaboration with the University Hamburg-Eppendorf, looks into the effect of betamethasone on new-borns and its...
A research conducted by the INc-UAB shows that the same perinatal brain injury caused by hypoxia and ischemia have differentiated effects on each gender, but can be improved through tactile and proprioceptive stimuli. Petting and massaging the...
