3,980 years ago occurred the largest eruption of the last millennia in Antarctica, according to the latest analysis of the lake sediments on the Byers Peninsula. This...
Nowadays, biomarkers to detect water contaminants coming from human pharmaceuticals are much needed to prevent deterioration of the aquatic environment. In this study, the effects of Gemfibrozil, a pharmaceutical widely found in the aquatic environment, were...
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...
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...
