The initiative, led by the Cetaqua Water Technology Centre, aims to foster a circular economy and represent a green energy and transport model for the metropolitan area of Barcelona by powering buses with biomethane obtained from sewage sludge. The GENOCOV research group at the UAB has worked together on this project with Aigües de Barcelona (Agbar) and Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB).
A project within the framework of the Complementary Plans of the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation, coordinated by the UAB, will develop antibiotics to eliminate infections without producing side effects in patients and leaving beneficial bacteria intact.
The Microscopy Service of the UAB has made available to the European scientific community Cryo-TEM, LSCM, Profilometry, SEM and TEM techniques and services, as part of the European NEP project.
The UAB will be holding a new edition of its "Thesis in 4 minutes" competition, in which PhD students are asked to explain their research in a maximum of four minutes. Candidates may submit their applications until 12 noon on 27 March, and the competition will take place in front of a jury on 17 May.
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The UAB and the UB launch a dissemination platform to fight misinformation in the field of nutrition, safety, technology and food sustainability.
A team of researchers develop a computational method to quantify the spread of antibiotic-resistant genes. The research, published in the journal Antibiotics, has been coordinated by Dr Jordi Barbé, from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), and Dr Ivan Erill, from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), in the United States.
The UAB recently launched a crowdfunding campaign to recover a selection of over 500 carnival masquerade ball scores from the 19th century, which were stored unpublished for decades at the Arxiu de la Societat del Gran Teatre del Liceu and were somehow miraculously spared from the 1994 fire.
Researchers from the Department of Chemistry are leading a European project that aims to revolutionise the way rice husk ash, a growing environmental and health problem, is used. The team, involving up to eight organisations, will develop multifunctional compounds from the ash residues, which will also be environmentally friendly.
The study of a gene therapy for the treatment of spastic paraplegia type 52 (SPG52) being carried out by researchers at the UAB has so far raised €263,000 through a crowdfunding project of the University and the association La lucha de Abril. The research is currently analysing the therapeutic effects of the treatment on mouse models of the disease and on neurons obtained from the stem cells of Abril, a Spanish girl affected by the disease. The association has so far made four donations of €50,000, the last of which was recently given to the project.