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Jorge Ramón, a researcher at the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Valencia, has explored, through the satirical press of the late nineteenth century, how the social

Recerca The lack of effective antibiotics is an increasingly serious threat to global health. In recent decades, only a few new antimicrobial agents have been able to reach the market. Designing new functionalities for already known antibiotics —or those that have fallen out of use due to toxicity— is one of the strategies to make up for this drug shortage.

Emerging Science, a science dissemination project where the youngest researchers at the University of Valencia explain their work through short videos, has published a new series.

Un equipo del Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación (CIDE, UV-CSIC-GVA) ha comprobado que, en lugares con incendios frecuentes, los pinos comienzan a reproducirse a edades más tempranas.

Recerca Ants are social insects and the Solenopsis invicta species —known as the fire ant— is no exception. The social interactions of this invasive insect, which comes from South America, are framed within the context of the theory of Active Matter, which would explain the ants' group behaviour as a reaction to the intrinsic mechanisms in the system.

Recerca Mitochondria —the energy powerhouses of cells— play an essential role in cell physiology. The joining of two or more mitochondria and the division of a mitochondrion into two units are common processes. They are known as mitochondrial dynamics and are necessary for the proper functioning of these structures and of the cell itself.

In a new article, published in the leading international journal Science Advances, researchers from Universities of Oxford (UK), Aarhus (Denmark), Buenos Aires (Argentina) and UPF have shown how watching movies, a favourite pastime for billions of people, makes us feel and think in often transformative ways compared to our everyday experiences.

A team from the University of Valencia develops a novel system to predict severe hurricanes using Artificial Intelligence A research team from the Image Processing Laboratory (IPL) of the University of Valencia has developed a system that allows to optimally analyse and combinie certain structural parameters of the hurricane clouds from GOES satellite images.

UAM researchers have studied the evolution of the ivy family using massive genome sequencing techniques. The results, published in the Journal of Systematics and Evolution , show that the genera of this family, including ivy, arose in a very short time and as a result of hybridization between species.

A team of researchers from the University of Barcelona, the UB Institute of Neurosciences (UBneuro) and the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) has created the first highly mature neurons from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) using a synthetic material. This finding opens up new opportunities for medical research and potential therapies for neurodegenerative diseases and traumatic injuries.

This is an EIC Pathfinder project endowed with more than 4 million euros to get some genetically modified bacteria to produce hydrogen using non-potable water.

A new study by the University of Barcelona has analized the viability of a new nanomolecule as drug delivery vehicle. The results, published in the journal Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces , show that liposomes designed by researchers are able to transport and deliver an anticancer drug that has been used as a model inside the cells.

An international study led by Spanish scientists, with the participation of the researchers of UPF Marc Güell and Avencia Sánchez-Mejías, has deciphered the origin of the CRIPSR gene-editing tool and has confirmed its original activity. An international research group, with the participation of UPF, has for the first time reconstructed ancestors dating back 2.6 billion years of the well-known CRISPR-Cas system, and studied their evolution over time.

Coprolites, or fossil faeces from around 30,000 years ago, have been used to identify the presence of bearded vultures ( Gypaetus barbatus ) at the Palaeolithic site of Lagar Velho (Portugal). A comparison of the coprolites found in the excavations with the faeces of present-day lammergeyers has confirmed the presence of these animals in the past.