The economic value of a plant does not always overlap with its cultural value. In fact, they can be quite different. A group of researchers has developed a new method that allows to measure the cultural, practical, and economic value of plants. They have used that method to a research to an indigenous group in the Bolivian Amazon.
The UAB has taken part in a research project that has just made a discovery which questions one of the paradigms of vertebrate immunology, by which phagocytosis (the ability to ”ingest” and destroy microbes) is exercised mainly by...
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...
The research group for Research in Cell and Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Engineering, composed of researchers from Sant Pau Hospital, the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Technical University of Catalonia, has found a new group of stem cells from the spinal cord that may lead to a new form of treatment for the regeneration...
In a recent expedition to Menorca, a team of anthropologists from the UAB Biological Anthropology Unit studied human remains from around 3000 years ago in a sepulchral cave, the Cova des Pas.
Today scientific progress depends to a great extent on computer tools. In genetic studies, for example, a cascade of data is generated, which is only comprehensible after vertiginous calculations on the part of a computer. The Faculty of Veterinary Science is well aware of...
Plants can be victims of aluminium's toxicity, wich, for example, affects the growth of the roots. In response of this, plants like corn have generated defence mechanisms. They produce compounds that had already been studied for their resistance to pesticides or their defence...
Gold nanoparticles have unusual properties compared with other elements. We have taken advantage of this characteristic to create a new type of biological marker. The Sensors and Biosensors Group at the UAB, jointly with the Institute of Molecular...
