The construction sector increasingly incorporates photosynthetic organisms on the outside of building elements, for aesthetic, environmental and economic reasons. This research compares the results of building materials with improved physical and chemical...
Inclusion bodies or amyloids are nanostructured protein aggregates produced inside a cell, frequent in certain bacteria, and with interesting biomedical applications such as drug protein delivery. Until now, the use of inclusion bodies was limited by the presence of own toxins from the...
An international team has developed three-dimensional models of the bite of the world's largest living amphibian, the Chinese giant salamander. The study, led by Josep Fortuny, researcher at the ICP and published in the journal PLoS ONE, explains the feeding mechanisms of this...
The yellow sugarcane aphid feeds on plants of the family of grasses. Researchers from the UAB and CREAF and from the University of León have discovered this species in Tarragona and Girona, which probably arrived from Northen Africa. Up to now it is unknown to what extent the aphid...
Tim Allen is a theoretical ecologist at the University of Wisconsin (USA) pioneer in the so-called hierarchy theory. Taking advantage of his visit to the UAB, we ask him three questions on the inability of science to deal with environmental problems and on the contribution that this theory can make to overcome the...
Kostas Kostarelos is Professor of Nanomedicine at the University of Manchester and Honorary Professor at the University College of London (UK) and is founding editor of the journal Nanomedicine. He recently advised the company PlayGen to develop a video game on nanomedicine in order to use this technology as a tool...
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, reseracher at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Cambridge -England-, was awarded with Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009 for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.
The Institute of Neurosciences of the UAB investigates several neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Since its creation, the institute has made important contributions to basic and clinical research,...
AITech was funded by doctors and lecturers from UAB and UPF specialised in computer vision. This spin-off develops new technologies to improve the perception of brands in the consumer goods market.
The Center for Male Infertility & Analysis of Barcelona (CIMAB), directed by researcher Agustí Garcia, determines with great precision the fertility potential of patients based on different methods of sperm analysis.
