Japan's devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami have set off alarms across much of the planet. Can a catastrophe of this magnitude take place in the Mediterranean? Are we prepared for it? University of Barcelona professor Miquel Canals, a marine geosciences expert, provides the answers to these pressing questions

In Catalonia, human activity accounts for three times the number of eagle deaths than natural causes. Half of these deaths are due to impacts or electrocution with electric towers. A team from the University of Barcelona is working to find solutions

JORDI MONTANER | JANUARY 24th, 2011

Stem cell cultures have been described by the press as the door that leads to personalized medicine, but there is still has a long way to go before this is a reality. To bring research to clinical practice, the University of Barcelona has decided to join forces with the August Pi i Sunyer Institute of Biomedical Research, the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona and the Institute of Biomedical Research of Bellvitge to create the Cellular Therapy program (TCUB), a project where basic and applied science work hand in hand

ÀNNIA MONREAL | NOVEMBER 29th, 2010

Food provides us with vitamins, protein and carbohydrates, but also heavy metals, dioxins and pesticides. Growing evidence indicates that some of these compounds may play a role in the generation of “modern” neurological diseases such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's.

PATRICIA MORÉN | OCTOBER 20TH, 2010