A group of research scientists at the Experimental Tuberculosis Unit of the Fundació Institut Germans Trias i Pujol have created a vaccination that reduces the length of treatment of the latent infection which causes tuberculosis from nine months to only one...
The construction of an industrial composting unit often leads to conflict due to the social rejection it causes among local residents because of the contamination to the atmosphere and bad smells it creates. Researchers of the Organic Waste Compost Group of the Department of Chemical Engineering have now managed to minimise contaminant gases...
Researchers at the Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine at the UAB have managed to develop a new protein, called NF795gpC, which acts as a sensor when it comes into contact with the serum of a patient infected by HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) and allows it to be easily detected.
Researchers at the UAB have undertaken the EPICOLON project, in which they analysed 2,000 patients with colorectal cancers diagnosed over the year in 25 hospitals throughout Spain. As a result of this work they have defined hereditary syndrome clearly differentiated from...
Mercury is one of the most dangerous chemical elements for the environment and humans. This makes it important to analyse how much mercury there is and what happens when it reaches the ground from industrials emissions. UAB researchers have studied the land closest to a chlorine-alkali plant located in the Netherlands.
Some of those who suffer a severe or moderate head injury experience a ventricular dilatation in the brain that may cause unnecessary suffering to patients. UAB Scientists have studied the origin of these ventricular dilatation. They have concluded that...
The mood state with which we face stressful situations has a decisive influence on the strategies that we prepare to get through them and is not consequence of situations themselves, as was believed until now. This was the conclusion made by a UAB research team after monitoring more than 300 university students to examine how they prepared for...
It is detected an increase of the diabetes prevalence in patients infected by the Hepatitis C virus (HCV), as well as a greater prevalence of infection by HCV in diabetic people. UAB researchers from the Endocrinology Department of the Hospital Vall d'Hebron review the information available and study the mechanisms by which HCV triggers the...
In our chromosomes there are small disorders that generally do not affect us but that can be decisive for reproduction. This is the case for the so-called chromosomal inversions (a change in direction of a chromosomal fragment within the original chromosome). UAB researchers have studied these alterations and concluded that the larger a...
The Little Ice Age (LIA), a significate climatic cooling of the Northern Hemisphere between the end of Middle Ages and the 18th century, also ocurred in the tropics, and the more likely cause was a minimum in the solar cycles. This has been confirmed after...
