The Drosophila melanogaster, or fruit fly, shares homology with humans in some key physiological systems and serves as an efficient model to study infections. Moreover, it is an ethical alternative to reduce the use of...
People are exposed to microplastics and nanoplastics, and we do not know the potential of these pollutants to induce cancer in the long term. Researchers from the Mutagenesis Group have carried out a review of the scientific literature on this relationship. Most of the...
Contamination by plastic waste is a serious environmental problem that will increase in the coming years, but the extent to which it may pose a health risk is unknown. The UAB Mutagenesis Group has, for the first time, obtained and characterised...
One of the major health challenges nowadays is the fight against bacterial resistance to antibiotics. The use of bacteriophages (virus that only infect bacteria) is one of the most...
A study with the participation of researchers from the Yeast Molecular Biology group of the Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine (UAB) has described for the first time an ultra-rare congenital...
On the occasion of her visit to CREAF as part of the CREAFTalks program, we interviewed researcher Ophélie Ronce, director of the CNRS research group at the University of Montpellier and member of the CREAF Scientific Council since 2017. Ophélie studies the role of evolution...
The study of the peptides recognized by the thymocytes in the human thymus has importance to know the process of maturation of T lymphocytes. A UAB researcher has published a protocol...
Throughout our evolutionary history we have been subjected to persistent adaptive challenges that have left footprints on our genome. The UAB Bioinformatics of Genomic Diversity research group identified in 2019 multiple genomic regions that might be relevant to understanding human evolution....
Human population increases at a fast pace making necessary to devise more efficient strategies to ensure an adequate food supply. In this study, researchers investigate the molecular basis...
Pig farming is the sector with the greatest economic impact in Catalonia. For this reason, it is essential to deepen the understanding of the physiology of this animal. Thanks to a collaboration between the Center for Research in Agrigenomics (CRAG) and the...
