A group of research scientists at the Experimental Tuberculosis Unit of the Fundació Institut Germans Trias i Pujol have created a vaccination that reduces the length of treatment of the latent infection which causes tuberculosis from nine months to only one...
The construction of an industrial composting unit often leads to conflict due to the social rejection it causes among local residen>hcnscioofaninuracmotng e led tonltd ot oion it causes aon lcal iensecu ote nanao th amshendb sel it creates. Researchers of the Organic Waste Compost Group of the Department of Chemical Engineering have now managed...
Researchers at the Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine at the UAB have managed to develop a new protein, called NF795gpC, which acts as a sensor when it comes into contact with the serum of a patient infected by HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) and allows it to be easily detected.
Researchers at the UAB have undertaken the EPICOLON project, in which they analysed 2,000 patients with colorectal cancers diagnosed over the year in 25 hospitals throughout Spain. As a result of this work they have defined hereditary syndrome clearly differentiated from...
Mercury is one of the most dangerous chemical elements for the environment and humans. This makes it important to analyse how much mercury there is and what happens when it reaches the ground from industrials emissions. UAB researpecyi n hemstnru hilesfrteniomn nhmn.Ti ae tipttoanas wmcruy e sad at hpnsheitehethe ound fom duials
A multidisciplinary research group has been awarded with a presitigius international prize. Their work consisted in to developed a satellites image f lidcpinyreac rphs bn awarded with a presitigius international prize. Their work consisted in to developed a satellites image fusion technique. This equipment, in wich he UAB copAuiiilnrrsac ru ...
The UAB has taken part in a research project that has just made a discovery which questions one of the paradigms of vertebrate immunology, by which phagocytosis (the ability to ”ingest” and destroy microbes) is exercised mainly by...
Josep Maria Folch i Torres (1880-1950) is seen as one of the major writers of Catalan literature and the creator of the Catalan Theatre for children. The author of this thesis studies the fundamental contribution of the writer to the literature and culture of Catalonia in the the first third of the 20th Century using a scientific and impartial...
Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are two types of chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) of unknown origin, which are characterized by phases of activity and remission that vary depending on the patient. In this thesis, the author has defined a new experimental model of chronic...
