A new pestivirus has affected chamois populations from the Catalan Pyrenees, causing mortalities reaching sometimes 80%. UAB researchers have analyzed the MHC complex gene of 81 chamois from different National Game Reserves, from Cadi to Cerdanya-Alt Urgell, to establish the relationship between...
UAB researchers have discovered an impressive 4,200-year-old fortification in Totana, Murcia, unique in continental Europe. Similar characteristics have not been observed in other constructions of the Bronze Age, with three-metre thick walls and a monumental entrance....
The compounds found in sunscreens and other products used to reduce the effect of ultraviolet radiations in our body are released into the environment, without the usual procedures to remove unwanted compounds such as treatment facilities, are prepared to remove them. This...
Researchers from the Unit of Cell Biology and Medical Genetics have developed methods of molecular genetic analysis in single cells (mutations and study of all chromosomes 1 to 22, X and Y) that have already been applied to Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) for...
For the first time ever, the birth of a boy and a girl without the monogenic hereditary non polyposis colon-rectal cancer (HNPCC) disease or Lynch Syndrome, present in the father has been achieved. This was been possible after a successful application of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis...
A group of researchers from the Unitat de Biologia Cel·lular i Genètica Mèdica de la UAB formed by Dra M. Rius, MSc G. Daina, MSc L. Ramos, Dr J. del Rey, Dr A. Obradors, Dr J. Benet and leaded by Dra J. Navarro, and with the...
