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From left to right: Pilar and Aurora Cayero.
Pilar and Aurora Cayero: “No one is born being a bad person, they become so because of the circumstances”
08/04/2019
"We learned more things about this profession during this hour than in the whole trimester of the bachelor’s degree" was the summary of a student of Social Education on the experience of having seen the play Darrere la porta, a written, directed and played play by Pilar and Aurora Cayero,...
The photograph
Volunteers were the true stars of this activity.
Discovering and protecting biodiversity by collaborating in the census of nocturnal raptors
16/04/2019
Students, naturalists, engineers, economists, bankers, computer scientists, agriculturists, architects and even children with their families are some of the volunteers that took part in the nocturnal raptor census of the Parc Natural de Sant Llorença d’Amunt i l’Obac. From December 2018 until February 2019, this initiative has gathered around sixty people –aged between...
Current affairs
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16/04/2019
Experience Saint George's Day at the UB!
This year, Saint George’s Day is the day after Easter Monday, which altered the schedule for the activities of the centers and faculties so that these take place during school days. Therefore, the activities for Saint George’s day at the UB will take place between April and May, almost a...
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16/04/2019
Discovering and protecting biodiversity by collaborating in the census of nocturnal raptors
Students, naturalists, engineers, economists, bankers, computer scientists, agriculturists, architects and even children with their families are some of the volunteers that took part in the nocturnal raptor census of the Parc Natural de Sant Llorença d’Amunt i l’Obac. From December 2018...
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15/04/2019
Quantum beyond science
Quantum contradicts our human experience, which presents philosophical doubts on our perception of reality. The exhibition “Quàntica”, in which UB researchers have taken part and which will be available in the Barcelona Contemporary Culture Centre (CCCB), presents new doubts and connections...
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12/04/2019
A Tintoretto's reinterpretation for the 2019 Saint George's poster at the UB
Abstraction marks the poster for the new edition of Saint George’s Day at the University of Barcelona. This morning, the Fine Arts CRAI Library held the presentation of the selected painting to illustrate Saint George’s Day 2019 at the UB. Chosen by the Commission of Culture at the Faculty...
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10/04/2019
High capacity students: the forgotten ones
There are many myths and stereotypes regarding high capacities, and a big lack of knowledge. This is one of the main conclusions of the meeting “High capacities, heard about them? An approach and experiences”, held on March 27, at the Faculty of Education. Organized by Aprenent x Educar...
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10/04/2019
The UB awards the XXII Doctors' Senate Awards and the extraordinary doctorate awards
The Paranimph of the Historical Building held on Tuesday, April 9, the ceremony of the Doctors' Senate Awards for the 2018 edition, and the extraordinary doctorate awards for the 2016/2017 academic year. The ceremony was presided by the rector, Joan Elias; the vice-rector for Doctoral Studies and Research...
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09/04/2019
A party to fall in love with mathematics and computer science
The Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science has been organizing Matefest-Infofest for twenty years to show these two disciplines are not boring and that they have many uses. Everything indicates the fest is always successful, because every year, the Pati de Ciències (sciences patio) of the Historical...
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09/04/2019
The UB launches the new grant program Master+ UB to recruit research talent
The University of Barcelona launches, as a pilot plan, the program Master+UB, a new model of grants for master’s degree students to recruit talent and promote scientific vocations. Students with good academic records can apply for these grants, which have a new format. There will be a total of...
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09/04/2019
The bells of the Historical Building of the UB will ring again
The bells of the Historical Building of the UB will tell the time in Plaça Universitat. The inauguration took place this morning, Tuesday, April 9, at 12 noon, presided by the rector of the UB, Joan Elias. These bells were silent for more than two decades: since 1995, when the clock broke and the bells...
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08/04/2019
Reviewing the current health model, from the UB to Harvard
From July 8 to July 12, the Harvard Law School, in Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA), will hold the Health Policy Innovation Seminar: an executive seminar for clinicians and policy makers organized in collaboration with the University of Barcelona. ...
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08/04/2019
Pilar and Aurora Cayero: “No one is born being a bad person, they become so because of the circumstances”
"We learned more things about this profession during this hour than in the whole trimester of the bachelor’s degree" was the summary of a student of Social Education on the experience of having seen the play Darrere la porta, a written, directed and played play by Pilar and Aurora Cayero,...
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03/04/2019
Geneticists David Bueno and Gemma Marfany claim need for scientific dissemination
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Research
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17/04/2019
UB researchers develop new variant of Maxwell’s demon at nanoscale
Maxwell’s demon is a machine proposed by James Clerk Maxwell in 1897. The hypothetical machine would use thermal fluctuations to obtain energy, apparently violating the second principle of thermodynamics. Now, researchers of the University of Barcelona have presented the first theoretical and...
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16/04/2019
Researchers identify a new biomarker for personalized treatments against cancer
One of the features of cancer cells is their ability to avoid apoptosis, a process of programmed cell death to remove damaged cells. Nowadays, many research lines for new chemotherapy treatments try to induce apoptosis to remove cancer cells, or at least, reduce the size of the tumor. A new study,...
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11/04/2019
The Laboratory of Phonetics leads the creation of an assessment tool for Catalan-speaking children with hearing loss
The Laboratory of Phonetics of the Faculty of Philology of the UB has led the research project that resulted in the publication of the manual Logoaudiometries infantils en català oriental central, a tool created for the first time in Peninsular Eastern Catalan and which aims to support the process of...
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10/04/2019
A new molecule to improve treatment for type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
A new molecule –EPB-53-, could help fight type 2 diabetes and the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, according to a new study led by the team of Manuel Vázquez-Carrera, from the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences and the Institute of Biomedicine of the University of Barcelona (IBUB),...
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10/04/2019
Antoni Prevosti, great master in evolutionary genetics in Spain
The Aula Magna of the Faculty of Biology hold on Thursday April 11 at 11 a.m. the commemorative ceremony for the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Antoni Prevosti, the first professor of Genetics in Spain and distinguished figure in the field of teaching and research on evolutionary genetics. ...
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09/04/2019
Torna el Festival de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia 10alamenos9 amb noves seus i activitats
El Festival de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia 10alamenos9, el més gran que s’organitza a l’Estat en el camp de la divulgació de les nanotecnologies, torna un any més amb la participació de deu ciutats i més de quaranta centres de recerca coordinats des de la Universitat de Barcelona. ...
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08/04/2019
Researchers identify molecular features of brain regions associated with high levels of education in the elderly
A study led by a team from the Institute of Neurosciences of the UB identified greater cortical thickness in the frontal lobe in a group of old people with high levels of education (15 or more years of education). Afterwards, the study of the molecular architecture of these regions revealed these areas...
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08/04/2019
When the Earth climate changed radically a million years ago
A million years ago, the Earth’s climate was brutally altered due unknown causes. The continental ice masses accumulated in polar regions, glacial cycles became longer and colder –the most intense ones in the history of the Quaternary-, and as a result, the global climate system was fully...
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04/04/2019
Opitz C Syndrome: new advances to improve the genetic diagnose of an ultra-rare disease
Opitz C syndrome (OCS), an ultra-rare disease that causes serious physical and intellectual disabilities, has an heterogeneous genetic base that makes its medical diagnostic and therapeutic intervention difficult, according to a new study by professors Daniel Grinberg, Susanna Balcells and Roser...
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03/04/2019
Reconstruction of glacier evolution at the mountains of the Iberian Peninsula over the last hundred thousand years
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02/04/2019
Anti-platelet therapy prevents the progression of fatty liver to liver cancer in animal models
A study published in the journal Nature Medicine proposes a paradigm shift in the approach to steatohepatitis, the most advanced degree of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, one of the diseases that caused the increase in the incidence of cases of liver cancer. ...
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28/03/2019
Researchers discover a new migraine-associated mechanism
A mutation in the gen that codes the ionic channel TRESK –involved in the control of neuron irritability- causes the dysfunction of some neurons that increase neuronal activity and induce migraine pain. This is the main conclusion of a new study published in the journal Neuron, in which...
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