In the 21th Century tuberculosis is still a very important cause of many deaths every year. There are vaccines, but their efficacy is not very high. UAB researchers have collaborated in a research for improving the treatment based in the study of Toll-like receptors. The trials with animal models have demonstrated a role for Toll-like receptors in...
Guerrero has taken part in various scientific projects and is known in Spain as the first person to introduce the theory of microbial ecology. "Without microbes, life on our planet would be impossible", says Guerrero. "From the moment we are born we need bacteria to live".
UAB Chemical Engineering Department works in the development of new technologies to improve the recombinant protein -obtained by genetic modification of a microorganism- production processes in both ways, qualitative and quantitative. Now, it has just presented a new control system to automate the whole process.
The important role that layers of cianobacteria (photosynthetic microorganisms) play in the process of degradation in oil spillages at sea or along the coat is widely known. However recent research undertaken by the Environmental Microbiology Group at the UAB has shown that these...
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...
