The biocatalytic enzyme industry has a promising future, since these enzymes allow for the synthesis of less polluting products, such as biodiesel, and the improvement of nutritional and organoleptic properties...
The dysfunction of G protein-coupled receptors, known as GPCRs, is associated with neurological, cardiac, and psychiatric disorders, among others. Drugs that target a specific GPCR can cause unwanted effects, since they usually bind...
Freely expressing an opinion in public has never been easy, when from the private point of view it is thought that doing so may compromise one's own relationship with other groups of the same society. However, this feeds plural ignorance and threatens democracy....
Cancer treatment through targeted therapy continues to advance. The idea is to have drugs whose mechanism of action focuses directly on diseased cells and avoids damaging healthy cells. Protein...
Forests around the world are witness to Climate Change. Mortality episodes coincide with periods of severe drought that are accompanied by heat waves, and these periods are becoming increasingly frequent. In this article, researchers from CREAF and the UAB describe their study, in which they...
Green tea infusions have positive health effects. The dried leaves are rich in antitumor and antioxidant bioactive compounds that are released when in contact with hot water. However, in the plant from which they...
The Tell es-Sin (Mount of the Tooth) site, located on the border of what is now known as Syria and Iraq, corresponds to a Byzantine settlement, whose study must be interpreted within the historical context of the eastern Limes Diocletianus, between...
The physicochemical properties of molecules are determined by a series of external factors such as temperature, or intrinsic to the element that makes them up, such as their atomic number. The final result of the conjugation of all of them is the conformation of...
The automotive sector continues moving towards the autonomous car, proposing new improvements at technological level. A significant part of the advances comes from incorporating Artificial Intelligence (AI) through the efficient...
Scientific evidence supports the positive effects of nature on mental and physical health in children. A study published by researchers from the ICTA-UAB and the Barcelona Lab for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ), a pioneer in spatial...
