A team led by scientists from the UPF Department of Experimental and Health Sciences ( DCEXS ) and the Institute of Evolutionary Biology ( IBE ), a joint UPF and…

What makes a gene cause a disease? Do all the genes linked to pathologies have something in common? Is there a relationship between disease and evolutionary adaptation? These are some…

The analysis of the dental calculi obtained from the teeth of the jaw of an individual found in the site of the Sima del Elefante de Atapuerca (Burgos), which is…

Mygalomorphic hatch spiders are robust, hairy-bodied spiders that live in tubes protected by a small door camouflaged in the ground, from where they surprise their prey. This group, with sixteen…

Life is a process that originated 3.5 billion years ago. It arose when the basic components of cells that we know today, that is, inanimate chemical molecules, were joining, mixing,…

Wolbachia is the symbiotic organism of animals that has spread the most throughout the planet Being in the right place at the right time. This has been the key to…

A Spanish-Italian team led by the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) has discovered that a class of meteorites known as carbonaceous chondrites are capable of synthesizing key organic compounds…

The Genetics and Epidemiology of Human Populations research group, led by Dr. Pedro Moral, has started a crowdfunding campaign to characterize the genome of populations in the Catalan Pyrenees. The…

High mountain plant communities are one of the groups most vulnerable to global change. This phenomenon could threaten even the species that inhabit the highest levels, such as the Saxifraga…

Neolithic communities in the northern Mediterranean began milk production between 9000 and 7000 years ago, from the beginning of agriculture, as soon as they introduced the domestication of animals. Milk…

would not have fed on hard and abrasive resources, such as tubers or roots, but would have eaten soft foods, probably including animal protein and ripe fruit. Also Homo habilis…

The diet of our most remote ancestors, the hominins, was richer and more varied than previously thought, according to an article published in the journal PLOS ONE signed by a…

Researchers from the Brain Cognition and Plasticity group of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute and the University of Barcelona (IDIBELL-UB), in collaboration with researchers from McGill University (Montreal), have published…

North Africa is the result of a multitude of migrations as a result of its strategic position between three continents: separated from the rest of Africa by the Sahara desert,…

Imagine three or four different work groups. There will be one of them stronger than the others. To grow in importance, the weak have only two options: ally with the…

the degree of mixing in the DNA allows us to deduce when this mixing took place between their ancestors. Thanks to genomic techniques, scientists led by David Comas, IBE Principal…

can create later problems in the crops, which can increase the cost of their use. Another important aspect of the studies that will follow this work is to observe how…

to those who had not introduced relatives into their diet. “When a species lacks the minimum sustenance, it goes in search of food at all costs. The insects begin to…

have focused on the effectiveness of pest control through natural predators and parasites, which can be applied well when the pest has already appeared, so that it acts immediately, well…

throughout the intervention its possibilities as a predictive and curative means of diseases that are incurable until now have been analyzed. In another sense, a reflection on its consequences as…

At a time like the present in which we are experiencing the effects of climate change in different aspects, knowing some basic aspects of dendrochronology, a science that allows us…

the environmental niche of each species, suggesting that it is a very dynamic process and responsible in part for the diversity that we find when we compare different organisms.”Since the…

Researchers from EMBL (Cambridge and Heidelberg) and the University of Washington present an evolutionary analysis of the protein phosphorylation of 18 species of fungi that indicates rapid divergence, with only…

control the specialization of cells in different tissues. Now, in close collaboration with Eduard Sabidó’s team at the Proteomics Unit of the Center for Genomic Regulation and Pompeu Fabra University,…

L’embried nonconformist is his first informative work. David Bueno i Torrens (Barcelona, ​​1965), the doctor in Biology, is a professor of Genetics at the University of Barcelona. His professional and…

selected from all those available in the scientific literature. The purpose of these examples is to facilitate a global understanding of the evolutionary and developmental mechanisms that have generated all…

surprising, such as sexual transmission from archaic to modern humans. But unlike in the past, today we have condoms and vaccines to protect against these infections. Therefore, Colombia Email Address…