La UAB evaluará la efectividad de un tratamiento anticonceptivo para jabalíes

by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

8 years ago
jabalíes, esterilización, superpoblación

Los investigadores Manel López Béjar (Departamento de Sanidad y Anatomía Animales) y Jordi Miró (Medicina y Cirugía Animales) asesorarán y harán el seguimiento, respectivamente, de un proyecto ...

España encabeza el retraso a la maternidad en Europa

by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

8 years ago
demografía, maternidad

El Centro de Estudios Demográficos de la UAB analiza la infecundidad en España y sus causas en "Perespectives Demogràfiques", una nueva publicación científica. El retraso de la edad de la primer...

Cocaine users present alterations in brain functioning and structures

by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

8 years ago
cocaine, brain structures

The research, led by the IIB Sant Pau with the involvement of the UAB, used three different magnetic resonance neuroimaging techniques to study brain activation patterns and integrity of grey and whit...

Discovery of mechanism that enables bacteria to elude antibiotics

by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

8 years ago
bacteria, antibiotics

Researchers from UAB describe for the first time, in a work published in PLOS ONE, a model of behaviour of a bacterial colony that shows how the colony protects itself against toxic substances, like a...

New urban wastewater treatment plant that can generate energy

by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

8 years ago
LIFE Programme, SAVING-E, urban wastewater treatment plants

Researchers in the Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering are coordinating an EU LIFE Programme to explore the possibility of generating energy from the treatment of urban wa...

Seagrasses reveal devastation of coastal ecosystems

by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

8 years ago
seagrasses, coastal ecosystems, environment

The research, involving researcher Dr Pere Masqué from ICTA-UAB, UAB Department of Physics and the Edith Cowan University in Australia, provides new insights to properly manage further environmental ...

Protein that improves mobility after spinal cord injuries

by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

8 years ago
IL-37, Spinal cord injuries, proteins

An international team of scientists coordinated by UAB and CIBERNED researcher Rubén López Vales has established that interleukin-37 (IL-37), a cytokine belonging to the interleukin-1 family, promot...

Crowdfunding campaign for research into pesticides and cancer of the pancreas

by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

8 years ago
crowdfunding, pancreatic cancer

A project conducted by the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) and the UAB to investigate whether certain pesticides and other environmental toxins contribute to pancreatic cancer has b...

Desarrollan una herramienta para medir el riesgo de fractura ósea desde los centros de salud

by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

8 years ago
fractura ósea, algoritmo FRAX, OMS

Un estudio del IDIAP Jordi Gol y la UAB demuestra la efectividad de la adaptación de una herramienta de la OMS para medir, desde los Centros de Atención Primaria, la previsión del riesgo de fractur...

Evolutionary advantage of genetic recombination in the genome measured for first time

by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

8 years ago
genetic recombination, genomics, evolution

The Genomics, Bioinformatics and Evolution research group, in collaboration with researchers in the universities of Sussex and Edinburgh, have quantified one of the most important and hard-to-measure ...

Geometric study of brain cells could change strategies on Alzheimer's

by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

8 years ago
Alzheimer, brain cells, amyloid plaques, astrocytes

UAB researchers have found that, contrary to current thinking, astrocytes are repelled by the amyloid plaques that are linked to the disease. This research was published this week in Proceedings of th...

Fish could have emotions and consciousness

by Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

9 years ago
fish, emotional fever

An international team of scientists with participants from the UAB has discovered that fish show "emotional fever", a slight increase in body temperature in situations of stress linked to the emotions...