As a part of the activities of the UAB Year of Evolution, The faculties of Biosciences and Sciences have held a conference on Prebiotic Evolution. The event included various seminars and the inauguration of the reproduction of the Miller-Urey apparatus, that has been set up...
In nature we can see many examples of adaptable evolution. On of these mechanisms may be seen in the co-evolution of herbivorous insects and the plants they feed on: while prey develop biological defences, the predators react to make themselves insensitive to attack....
After being synthesized, the proteins fold themselves to acquire their function. Although this process, called oxidative folding, has been investigated extensively, some keys aspects have been neglected, like the thermodynamics or the computational prediction. UAB researchers disassembled this puzzle and its conclusions became a one single theory...
Dendrimer is the name of a synthetic molecule which is produced by a nanotechnological process used by various sectors of the applied sciences to carry out their work. Such is the case of a group of researchers at the UAB who use dendrimers as drugs to fight...
A team of biophysicists at the UAB have discovered the molecular process involved in AIDS and present their results. In their laboratory they artificially recreated part of the viral process and their conclusions are interesting. Peptides, which enable the virus to fuse with our cells, have a...
In the design of new medicines, it is very important to know how the proteins' functions are characterized. Sandra Izquierdo's doctoral thesis, "�cids (+) i (-) aminociclobutan-1-carbox�lics i la seva incorporaci� en �-p�ptids. Estudi sint�tic i estructural", studied how the secondary structures of the particles that form the proteins, the...
Plants can be victims of aluminium's toxicity, wich, for example, affects the growth of the roots. In response of this, plants like corn have generated defence mechanisms. They produce compounds that had already been studied for their resistance to pesticides or their defence...
Chromosomes are composed of a material named chromatin. Generally it is accepted that DNA is packaged in chromosomes during mitosis following a succession of chromatin fiber folds. According to a study carried out by UAB researchers, in addition to...
