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Certain Plant Roots Select the Microorganisms that Colonize Them
Wetlands are environments of high biodiversity, environmental value and water importance that play a relevant role in the ecosystem. The vegetation in these environments consists of aquatic plants in whose roots microorganisms live which, for example,...
Thermophilic Microorganisms in Biofilms from Greenhouse-Enclosed drip Irrigation Systems
Drip irrigation optimises water reuse and makes irrigation more efficient, but the system often presents problems of obstruction caused mainly by the accumulation of material of biological origin, which often begins...
Tuberculosis in Barcelona, an unsolved problem
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that affects each year to 8.8 million people and produces about 1.4 million deaths worldwide, mostly in poor countries. The problem of its frequent association with HIV, has been added increasing antibiotic resistance mainly due to poor...
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...
Mother at risk of chromosomal abnormalities gives birth to healthy baby girl
A group of researchers from the Unitat de Biologia Cel·lular i Genètica Mèdica de la UAB formed by Dra M. Rius, MSc G. Daina, MSc L. Ramos, Dr J. del Rey, Dr A. Obradors, Dr J. Benet and leaded by Dra J. Navarro, and with the...
