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...
Researchers of the Nanobiology Unit from the UAB Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, led by Antonio Villaverde, have produced an alternative to the use of viruses in gene therapy.The researchers synthesised nanoparticles which act as artificial...
The results of a pioneering study conducted at the Vall d’Hebron University Hospital with 109 adult patients admitted to the Burn Unit suggest that some personality characteristics might be used to identify the most vulnerable patients who may...
Epidemiological and toxicological studies consistently have associated exposure to air pollutants with diverse negative health outcomes (related to cardiovascular, respiratory and other problems). To determine if air pollution (especially road traffic-related pollution) has any detrimental effect on...
In Western societies, fragility fractures are increasing in absolute numbers and are associated with the increase in life expectancy. The WHO published in 2008 a tool to properly identify the population’s increased risk of fragility fracture and prioritise...
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.
