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VOCs in Montseny: between urban smog and biogeneration
VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) are compounds containing carbon which easily become gases. Human industrial activity generates them, but plants generate them as well in order to communicate with each other and with animals, or to protect themselves from various...
Innovation in Male Infertility Research
The UAB has patented an innovative system to specify in a simple, cost-effective and reliable manner the infertility of a person through the study of oxidative stress on sperm, a parameter rarely studied until now. The method was developed by professor Jordi Benet and doctoral researcher...
Study Reveals Genomic Imprinting of Natural Selection
The first results of the international project The Drosophila Genetic Reference Panel, published this week in Nature, trace a detailed map of the genomic imprinting of natural selection in the model organism used in the studies of genetics, the Drosophila melanogaster....
War veteran trauma in English literature
The haunting memory of the Great War in Britain is captured in the literary representation of the traumatised soldier returning home from war. Drawing on trauma theory and taking the figure of the shell-shocked soldier as a point of departure, Cristina Pividori, researcher at the...
