An international study led by the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute, in collaboration with researchers from the Neuropsychopharmacology Group at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and researchers from the CIBER of Mental Health (CIBERSAM), and published in Nature Communications, may facilitate the creation of new personalized treatments for people diagnosed with schizophrenia. These are…
CIC nanoGUNE, Polymat, and Indart3D collaborate on this project aimed at providing researchers and medical professionals with an advanced biofabrication platform. The research centers CIC nanoGUNE and Polymat, along with the 3D printing company, Indart3D, are collaborating to make available to medical and research personnel a tool that creates human tissues with the precision and complexity required…
The Basque-based brand, Tiresoul, is committed to sustainability in the footwear industry and that is why the brand is giving a second life to the rubber from used tires for the manufacture of its shoe soles. Many of the materials that are part of our daily lives take hundreds of years to decompose, which is why there are companies that choose…
Linked to the Enlightenment movement, the Royal Basque Society of Friends of the Country (Real Sociedad Bascongada de los Amigos del Pais), Euskalerriko Adiskideen Elkartea in basque (Euskera), was founded in 1764 and has its origins in gatherings held at the Intsausti Palace in Azkoitia, by the Count of Peñaflorida, Xavier Mª de Munibe. With the help of a group…
A University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) study employs game theory to assert that tumors with lower cellular heterogeneity exhibit higher aggressiveness. (Autor: Estíbaliz Pérez de la Torre) The convergence of mathematics, histopathology, and genomics substantiates the finding that the most aggressive clear cell renal cell carcinomas possess limited intratumor heterogeneity, implying a reduced diversity…
Une étude dirigée par le groupe FisioKlima-AgroSosT de l’Université du Pays Basque, en collaboration avec le gouvernement de Navarre et l’entreprise Gestion Ambiental de Navarra (GAN-NIK), a mis en lumière les pratiques de gestion cruciales pour promouvoir et préserver la biodiversité dans les pâturages du versant ouest des Pyrénées en Navarre. (Autor: Estíbaliz Pérez de…
The Tekniker technology center has pioneered the creation, production, and validation of a groundbreaking prototype: a wind turbine specifically engineered to harness the unique environmental conditions on the red planet for the European Space Agency (ESA). Addressing the pivotal question of whether Martian winds can be transformed into electrical energy, this initiative by Tekniker, a…
The Public University of Navarra (UPNA), in collaboration with the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), is leading a pioneering research that uncovers the first metabolic pathway responsible for the production of nitric oxide (NO) in plants from amino acids, highlighting the importance of oxymes, a type of chemical compounds, in this process. Recently published…
The University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) is actively engaged in the inaugural reconstruction of the genomic history of the first millennium in the Balkan Peninsula. The research has unveiled that the Balkans served as a frontier region of ancient Rome, exhibiting a cosmopolitan character comparable to the imperial center. Furthermore, the study indicates that…
Conducted under the leadership of Ikerbasque Research Professor Shira Knafo at the Molecular Cognition Laboratory, a groundbreaking study, recently published in the esteemed journal Nature Molecular Psychiatry, has unveiled a significant correlation between anxiety disorders and the brain receptor TACR3, as well as testosterone levels. The research involved collaboration with the University of the Basque…