Nowadays, nobody discusses that what we learn when we are children will mark our adult life. Among the many things that we learn being children, we find eating habits, that is to say, how and what on do we feed. Among other things, what children learn when they develop can...
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a highly prevalent disease in Spain. It is the fourth cause of death in developed countries and overall fifth in the world according to World Health Organization estimates. A study with patients suffering from COPD...
Though we normally do not think about it, farm animals also suffer from diseases. A team from the UAB has studied the behaviour of bacterial populations of Haemophilus parasuis found in pigs and which sometimes provokes mortal outbreaks. This bacterium is a respiratory pathogen in pigs, whose...
The estimation of age-at-death of human osteological remains is important for both Anthropology and Forensic Medicine. In spite of its importance, adult age estimation is still not very accurate. For this reason there has been a growing interest in exploring new approaches, which include probability...
