VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) are compounds containing carbon which easily become gases. Human industrial activity generates them, but plants generate them as well in order to communicate with each other and with animals, or to protect themselves from various...
The UAB has patented an innovative system to specify in a simple, cost-effective and reliable manner the infertility of a person through the study of oxidative stress on sperm, a parameter rarely studied until now. The method was developed by professor Jordi Benet and doctoral researcher...
The first results of the international project The Drosophila Genetic Reference Panel, published this week in Nature, trace a detailed map of the genomic imprinting of natural selection in the model organism used in the studies of genetics, the Drosophila melanogaster....
Plants send signals into the atmosphere to communicate with other plants and animals: when a plant is attacked by a pathogen or a herbivore it releases certain compounds into the air that "warn" others of the imminent danger so that they can prepare themselves. These...
