The research team has created a method which quickly and easily discovers the antibiotic-resistance pattern of a clinical sample. This will permit doctors to choose the most adequate antibiotic treatment for patients with severe bacterial infections, thereby avoiding an indiscriminate use of antibiotics. Read more
A team formed by a mathematician, a physicist and a biologist from the UAB, the CRM and the BGSMath has discovered general formulas which realistically describe “bifurcations”, changes which could lead to the survival or extinction of a species within an ecosystem. The formulas could be applied to other dynamic systems. Read more
The Josep Carreras Foundation inaugurated on 5 October its new Leukaemia Research Institute at the ICO-Germans Trias i Pujol-UAB Campus in Badalona. The event included the attendance of Vice Rector for Research and Transference Armand Sànchez. Read more
A research team from the IBB-UAB and the ALBA synchrotron is developing a new vaccine concept to protect farmed fish from the main viral diseases affecting them. The alternative proposed by them is an orally administered nanoparticle. Read more
A research group led by CREAF and with the involvement of the UAB has discovered that the forest with the largest amounts of carbon in Spain are also the ones to harbour more diversity of tree and bird species, and vice versa. The study has given way to a map with the areas in which both properties are highest. Read more
The small SynuClean-D molecule interrupts the formation of the alpha-synuclein amyloid fibres responsible for the onset of Parkinson's disease, and reverts the neurodegeneration caused by the disease. The study was published in PNAS. Read more
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Since January 2017, the Research Group in Sport Psychology (Grup d’Estudis en Psicologia de l’Esport, GEPE) of the UAB, participates in the project ‘Be a Winner in elite sports and Employment before and after athletic Retirement’. Read more
