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Social factors in ants
A doctoral thesis read at the CREAF, at the UAB, attempts to characterise the social factors involved in the differentiation between workers and queens in ant colonies. Investigating ants' behavioural mechanisms, both physiological and pheromonal, this work confirms that both the queen and the workers influence...
Is thermal adaptation genetically limited?
Earth’s biodiversity is severely threatened by human-induced climate change. It is fairly trivial to mention that most organisms would be pushed either to evolve or migrate to new locations. Some current biodiversity models used to assess the vulnerability of species to climate...
The effects of the lack of potassium in the Cell
The effects of the lack of potassium, an essential cation in most living organisms, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast cells has been studied by a group of researchers at UAB. The lack of this element can affect many aspects of cell physiology, some of which are still unknown....
UAB succeeds in new embryo genetic testing techniques
Researchers from the Unit of Cell Biology and Medical Genetics have developed methods of molecular genetic analysis in single cells (mutations and study of all chromosomes 1 to 22, X and Y) that have already been applied to Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) for...
Twins born with no hereditary pathology
For the first time ever, the birth of a boy and a girl without the monogenic hereditary non polyposis colon-rectal cancer (HNPCC) disease or Lynch Syndrome, present in the father has been achieved. This was been possible after a successful application of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis...
Birth of the daughter of a carrier of double chomosomal translocations
In collaboration with a group from the Eugin clinic, formed by Dr. A. Obradors, Dr. R. Vidal, Dra. V. Vernaeve and Dr. O. Coll and with Dr. J. Obradors from the Consultori Obstètric i Ginecològic Josep Obradors, a group of researchers from the...
