A study conducted by the Mutagenesis Research Group of the Department of Genetics and Microbiology investigates the impact that micro/nanoplastics (MNPLs) may have on the liver of exposed humans, assuming that MNPLs internalization can cause cell alterations that could pose a health risk. The study has...
Bacteriophages are emerging as an innovative and sustainable tool for the biocontrol of pathogens in animal production. Researchers from the UAB have collaborated in a groundbreaking study, published in Food...
Phage therapy, the use of viruses that infect bacteria, is considered a promising strategy for the treatment of bacterial infections. However, it faces the challenge that bacteria can...
The Biological Anthropology Research Group of the UAB has studied the burials of infants from the Iberian site of Ullastret in a pioneering comprehensive research of the site. The study, in collaboration with the MAC-Ullastret, rules out sex or...
A UAB research has characterised in detail how polymer-based commercial tea bags release millions of nanoplastics and microplastics when infused. The study shows for the first time the capacity of these particles to be absorbed by human intestinal cells, and are thus...
The Drosophila melanogaster, or fruit fly, shares homology with humans in some key physiological systems and serves as an efficient model to study infections. Moreover, it is an ethical alternative to reduce the use of...
People are exposed to microplastics and nanoplastics, and we do not know the potential of these pollutants to induce cancer in the long term. Researchers from the Mutagenesis Group have carried out a review of the scientific literature on this relationship. Most of the...
Contamination by plastic waste is a serious environmental problem that will increase in the coming years, but the extent to which it may pose a health risk is unknown. The UAB Mutagenesis Group has, for the first time, obtained and characterised...
One of the major health challenges nowadays is the fight against bacterial resistance to antibiotics. The use of bacteriophages (virus that only infect bacteria) is one of the most...
A study with the participation of researchers from the Yeast Molecular Biology group of the Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine (UAB) has described for the first time an ultra-rare congenital...
