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Scientists from the European research project Micro4Biogas have discovered and characterised a new taxonomic order of bacteria which specialise in the decomposition of organic matter and could hold the key to improving biogas fuel production. The order, which they have dubbed Darwinibacteriales, is one of the most abundant in biogas-producing tanks but had never been characterised scientifically before.

An international research team from Spain and France has carried out the chemical and technological analysis of the largest known collection of red and yellow mineral pigments, commonly called ochre,

Pioneering research by the University of Valencia and the CSIC uses bacteria viruses against Xylella fastidiosa in the Balearic Islands Pilar Domingo-Calap, researcher at the Institute of Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), a joint centre of the University of Valencia (UV) and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), directs research with phages (bacterial viruses) that has started treating crop plants affected by the bacteria Xylella fastidiosa in the Balearic Islands.

Researchers from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) and CSIC have studied the effect of lamivudine, a drug used in the treatment of HIV, in a transgenic model of Alzheimer's disease. The results, published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences , suggest that retranscriptase inhibitors may be a promising strategy to be developed in the field of neurodegenerative diseases.

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19-month-old toddlers already use natural logical thinking, even before they learn to speak, to deal with uncertainties about the world. This natural logic contributes to their learning process, both in terms of language and in other fields of knowledge. This is one of the main conclusions of a study led by UPF's Center for Brain and Cognition, that has been published today in the journal Current Biology .

Astronomers from the Universitat de València captured the detailed image of the first radiation belt detected around a brown dwarf outside our solar system. The image, taken last January and now published in the Science journal, evokes the well-known belts of Earth and Jupiter, reveals a magnetic field ten times greater than that of the largest planet in the solar system, and unlocks new secrets of these ultracool substellar objects of very low mass and very powerful radiation.

An international research team led by the University of Valencia, in which the University of Cambridge and the Italian Ministry of Culture participate, has analysed for the first time the bones of the Pompeii Casts (the skeletons of its inhabitants in a plaster mould) with an innovative technique, x-ray fluorescence analysis, and concludes that they died of suffocation, not burned or dehydrated as other theories defend.

A research team from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), together with University College London in the United Kingdom, has carried out a study to analyse how chronic pain affects each patient's body. Within this framework, a deep learning method has been developed to analyse the biometric data of people with chronic conditions.

An international research team lead by the University of Tübingen and the Brazilian University of São Paulo, with CIDEGENT researcher Domingo C. Salazar from the University of Valencia, compiled the largest genomic dataset from Brazil to demonstrate that sambaqui communities on the southern and southeastern coasts didn-t represent a genetically homogeneous population.

Another of the conclusions of the study, conducted with the collaboration of the University of Toronto, is that the lexical creativity of children (when they are learning to speak) and that of the speakers of a language (which explains the historical evolution of the meanings of words) follow shared patterns.

Studying the "Matilda effect" in communication-related research 7/28/23 A study by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) reveals the existing gender inequality in the exercise of research careers in communication. This work shows the difficulty female researchers currently have in achieving higher levels of visibility and citations.

Researchers from the University of Valencia show recent advances and research opportunities in causal inference for the Earth and environmental sciences. The new algorithms integrate causal reasoning using machine learning techniques. The objective is to improve the understanding, based on observational time series, and promise to advance science and engineering.

Researchers from the University of Valencia and the INCLIVA Health Research Institute (Valencia Clinical Hospital) have analysed the possible effects of the presence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) in the blood of patients receiving CAR-T therapies, a form of immunotherapy that has been shown to be effective in certain types of haematological cancer.

An international study published in Nature, a scientific journal in collaboration with UV researchers, confirms the threat of plastic waste and microplastic contamination to humans and aquatic life. Up till now, the majority of research in this area has been centred on the world's oceans, yet this study reveals the presence of plastic pollutants in lakes and reservoirs, beyond large urban or highly human-transformed areas.

A study by the Centre for Research on Desertification (CIDE, UV-CSIC-GVA) has evaluated, through the analysis of wastewater, drug use in the city of Valencia during the period from 2011 to 2020. Cannabis, tobacco, and cocaine were the most consumed, especially during weekends and festive periods, in accordance with the EU estimates.

Researchers from the Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), a joint centre of the University of Valencia (UV) and the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), among other centres, have discovered that the Pigment-Dispersing Factor protein gene (PDF), which is part of the insect circadian clock (responsible for daily rhythms), is also found in the pea aphid.

Researchers from the Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), a joint centre of the University of Valencia (UV) and the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), among other centres, have discovered that the Pigment-Dispersing Factor protein gene (PDF), which is part of the insect circadian clock (responsible for daily rhythms), is also found in the pea aphid.

The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) is participating in a European research project, called SOLARIS, to analyse the political risks associated with multimedia content created using Artificial Intelligence (AI). The objective is to propose regulatory innovations in this regard from the field of Law in order to fight against fake news and disinformation created with this technology.

An international research team in which the Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), joint centre of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and the University of Valencia (UV) participate, has just published a study in the journal Microbiome which reveals the presence of beta-lactones, a group of little-studied substances with pharmaceutical potential generated by symbiotic bacteria that inhabit the skin of a species of nudibranch, a sea slug.