A study by researchers at the ICTA-UAB analyses the reasons why environmentally-minded scientists find it difficult to give up meat consumption, one of the world's greatest environmental problems. Scientists do not believe in individual actions and prefer to rely on politics and technology.
Were women working in the 18th century Spain, before censuses of the population existed? Thanks to this research, it has been discovered that a large percentage of women worked in manufacturing (especially in...
Vertigo, often referred to as a feeling of dizziness, is one of most frequent causes patients seek hospital emergency consultation and especially in primary healthcare centers. However, its diagnosis and treatment are...
Selective drug delivery (nanoconjugates generated by the cell-targeted drug and a nanoscale vehicle) could be a great asset in cancer treatment. Due to biosafety problems of the nanomaterials studied so far, emerging nanobiotechnologies are pushing the development of fully...
Recently, researchers from two different departments of the UAB and the Materials Science Institute of Barcelona (CSIC), in collaboration with researchers from other institutions, have published two articles in the field of archeology that refute the common perception of thin-sections...
In general practice, overusers, as the name indicates, are patients who overuse or abuse public health services thus generating burnout in professionals and increasing healthcare costs. In this article, the differential personality characteristics of overusers have been analyzed and results have shown...
Given the high annual demand for energy and its consequent emission of large amounts of carbon dioxide contributing to climate change, it is increasingly necessary to use renewable energy to solve these problems. That is why this new project aims to use biogas to obtain methanol, a renewable clean...
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a type of cancer characterized by the accumulation of mature B lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell that, under normal conditions, together with T lymphocytes, are responsible for combating infections. Atypical chronic...
Synchrotron light has been used for the first time to simulate damages due to oxidative stress on the aldose reductase protein with the aim of obtaining its activated form. This form of the protein, related with some...
A study by the research group Bioinformatics of Genome Diversity at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), published in the journal Nucleic Acids Research, increases by 40% the total number of signals of natural selection...
