Antibiotic resistance is nowadays one of the most serious threats to global health; a challenge considered to even rival Climate Change.... Read moreUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona participates in a capacity-building workshop to promote an international network on Antimicrobial Resistance
A study by researchers at the ICTA-UAB analyses the reasons why environmentally-minded scientists find it difficult to give up meat consumption, one of the world's greatest environmental problems. Scientists do not believe in individual actions and prefer to rely on politics and technology.
Were women working in the 18th century Spain, before censuses of the population existed? Thanks to this research, it has been discovered that a large percentage of women worked in manufacturing (especially in... Read more“They sew to sell”: eighteenth-century women’s work and structural change
Vertigo, often referred to as a feeling of dizziness, is one of most frequent causes patients seek hospital emergency consultation and especially in primary healthcare centers. However, its diagnosis and treatment are... Read moreThe main cause of vertigo can be easily diagnosed and treated by primary care physicians
Selective drug delivery (nanoconjugates generated by the cell-targeted drug and a nanoscale vehicle) could be a great asset in cancer treatment. Due to biosafety problems of the nanomaterials studied so far, emerging nanobiotechnologies are pushing the development of fully... Read moreSelective drug delivery and cancer treatment
Recently, researchers from two different departments of the UAB and the Materials Science Institute of Barcelona (CSIC), in collaboration with researchers from other institutions, have published two articles in the field of archeology that refute the common perception of thin-sections... Read moreThin-sections, the past serving the future
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a type of cancer characterized by the accumulation of mature B lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell that, under normal conditions, together with T lymphocytes, are responsible for combating infections. Atypical chronic... Read moreAtypical chronic lymphocytic leukemia: concept versus usage
Synchrotron light has been used for the first time to simulate damages due to oxidative stress on the aldose reductase protein with the aim of obtaining its activated form. This form of the protein, related with some... Read moreA new study from the ALBA Synchrotron explains the inefficacy of some diabetes drugs
A study by the research group Bioinformatics of Genome Diversity at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), published in the journal Nucleic Acids Research, increases by 40% the total number of signals of natural selection... Read moreOver 800 new genome regions possibly relevant to human evolution identified
This study proves that MALDI-TOF, a culture-based diagnostic tool able to identify a large variety of isolated bacteria, allows the identification and discrimination of NAS species (non-aureus staphylococci) in... Read moreImplementation of MALDI-TOF for routine identification of mastitis pathogens in dairy cows
