Members of the UAB Molecular Microbiology group, led by Dr Montserrat Llagostera, participate in the European project PhagoVet, funded with 3.3 million euros, to develop three bacteriophage-based products to fight against Salmonella and Escherichia coli outbreaks which could affect these farms. Read more
After six years of cataloguing hundreds of millions of distant galaxies, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) has finalised its data collection stage. The project is an international collaboration including the involvement of the IFAE and the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia, located on the UAB campus. Read more
A study conducted by the UAB and IMIM used neuroimaging techniques to show that social exclusion increases the number of ideological and group values worth fighting and dying for in populations vulnerable to radicalisation. The study focused on neural activity in a region of the brain related to rule retrieval and sacred values. Read more
The IBB, INc and ICTA-UAB institutes announce a competition for doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers at their centres. The challenge consists in participants explaining the research they are conducting in under two minutes. Read more
A new study based on electron microscopy techniques at low temperatures demonstrates that, during mitosis, chromosome DNA is packed in stacked layers of chromatin. The research, published in EMBO Journal, confirms a surprising structure proposed by UAB researchers over a decade ago, but criticized due to the limitations of the technique used. Read more
Researchers at the UAB have implemented an innovative and universal strategy, prepared for a simultaneous diagnosis of genetic mutations and chromosomal alterations within embryos obtained by in vitro fertilisation (IVF). It allows analysing up to 4,800 genes responsible for the most common hereditary diseases and speeds up the study process and the availability of the results of the family’s single gene disorders. Read more
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Human Evolution Beyond Biology and Culture: Evolutionary Social, Environmental and Policy Sciences (Cambridge University Press, October 2018) is a new book written by ICREA Research Professor Jeroen van den Bergh of at ICTA-UAB. Read more
