Professor of theoretical physics at Harvard University, Randall has linked her studies with philosophy, the humanities and music. The UAB awarded an honorary doctorate to Lisa Randall last march.She is also a well-known scientific disseminator, author of books like "Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding...
Historian of Science and Medicina at Yale University, she has published three books, the latest one entitled Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale (Chicago, 2018). Deborah Coen investigates the culture of science of the past and its connection with other intellectual and politica spheres, as well as...
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...
Interview with Deborah Coen, historian of science at Yale University and author of Climate in Motion: Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale (Chicago, 2018).
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...
The economic crisis started in 2008 has had direct effects on the population in housing rights, resulting in a massive dispossession process during the 2008-2017 decade. This thesis studies the impact of the housing crisis on the territory of...
The Research Lupus Unit from Vall Hebron Institute Research (VHIR) - UAB has been the first to demonstrate that microRNAs, small molecules of RNA capable of inhibiting and / or modulating gene expression, play a very important role in the lupus cutaneous mechanism of...
The lawyer and journalist Caddy Adzuba has stood out as an international speaker of the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), especially with regard to the situation of women, victims of gender violence related to DRC war. She is a founding member of the network "A loudspeaker for silence" and is...
