Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística: Recent submissions
Now showing items 181-200 of 2019
Whole genome and exome sequencing of monozygotic twins discordant for Crohn's disease
Background Crohn's disease (CD) is an inflammatory bowel disease caused by genetic and environmental factors. More than 160 susceptibility loci have been identified for IBD, yet a large part of the genetic variance remains ...
Editorial
The mission of a journal is to make visible the research of the different protagonists of the disciplines, selecting with scientific criteria the best evidence that allows us to build new knowledge, and review what is ...
Robotic Exploration: Place Recognition as a Tipicality Problem
Autonomous exploration is one of the main challenges of robotic researchers. Exploration requires navigation capabilities in unknown environments and hence, the robots should be endowed not only with safe moving algorithms ...
MicroRNA signatures associated with vulnerability to food addiction in mice and humans
Food addiction is characterized by a loss of behavioral control over food intake and is associated with obesity and other eating disorders. The mechanisms underlying this behavioral disorder are largely unknown. We aimed ...
Genome sequence of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum
Aphids are important agricultural pests and also biological models for studies of insect-plant interactions, symbiosis, virus vectoring, and the developmental causes of extreme phenotypic plasticity. Here we present the ...
Assessment of the gene mosaicism burden in blood and its implications for immune disorders
There are increasing evidences showing the contribution of somatic genetic variants to non-cancer diseases. However, their detection using massive parallel sequencing methods still has important limitations. In addition, ...
Creences homeopàtiques
Les creences, idees que admetem com a certes sense haver contrastat amb coneixement de causa les dades que les fonamenten, formen part de la nostra vida. Hom acostuma a aplicar aquest concepte a la religió, però sovint ...
L'enemic és gran
Una de les maneres més eficients d'estrènyer els lligams d'un col·lectiu és contraposant-lo a un enemic comú. Aquest fet activa instints evolutius ancestrals relacionats amb la supervivència del llinatge propi, que els ...
Genesis and evolution of the Evx and Mox genes and the extended Hox and ParaHox gene clusters
Background: Hox and ParaHox gene clusters are thought to have resulted from the duplication of a ProtoHox gene cluster early in metazoan evolution. However, the origin and evolution of the other genes belonging to the ...
Aerobic Vitamin B-12 Biosynthesis Is Essential for Pseudomonas aeruginosa Class II Ribonucleotide Reductase Activity During Planktonic and Biofilm Growth
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a major pathogenic bacterium in chronic infections and is a model organism for studying biofilms. P. aeruginosa is considered an aerobic bacterium, but in the presence of nitrate, it also grows ...
L'amor estabilitza el cervell
Fa just una setmana va començar la primavera, l'època en què la natura fa esclatar tota la seva vitalitat reproductora. I d'aquí a quatre setmanes podrem gaudir d'una de les festes més nostrades, Sant Jordi, on la cultura ...
Exploring allele specific methylation in drug dependence susceptibility
Drug dependence is a neuropsychiatric condition that involves genetic, epigenetic and environmental factors. Allele-specific methylation (ASM) is a common and stable epigenetic mechanism that involves genetic variants ...
A Microbiology Application of the Skew-Laplace Distribution
Flow cytometry scatter are ofen used in microbiology, and their measures are related to bacteria size and granularity. We present an application of the skew-Laplace distribution to flow cytometry data. The goodness of fit ...
Més enllà dels nostres horitzons
Vivim en un univers immens format per més de 2 bilions de galàxies, majoritàriament desconegut, per on deambulen formes de matèria i energia que encara no comprenem. L’intentem entendre a través de la ciència, l’humanitzem ...
Associative learning in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis.
The ability to learn and form memories allows animals to adapt their behavior based on previous experiences. Associative learning, the process through which organisms learn about the relationship between two distinct events, ...
Serem cada cop més intel·ligents?
El cervell humà està en un punt molt pròxim al seu límit evolutiu
Brutícia mental
Les persones interpretem els successos de la vida segons la nostra ideologia i paràmetres mentals, que són el producte sinèrgic de les experiències que hem tingut, l'educació que hem rebut, el context en què ens trobem, ...
La FP ha de dur a la universitat? La formació professional compleix uns objectius diferents al batxillerat.
Alumnes de formació professional copen els graus dedicats a formar el professorat. La irrupcio d'estudiants de FP deixa fora de la universitat alguns batxillers.
La utilización forense del ADN de animales y plantas: aspectos jurídicos y sociales
La genética de animales y plantas puede ser útil para resolver ciertos casos criminales donde el estudio del ADN humano no haya aportado suficientemente información. También pueden investigarse situaciones en las que los ...
Effect of common drinking water disinfectants, chlorine and heat, on free legionella and amoebae-associated legionella
Chlorine and thermal treatments are the most commonly used procedures to control and prevent Legionella proliferation in drinking water systems of large buildings. However, cases of legionellosis still occur in facilities ...
