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The European Union’s Prize for Citizen Science, in the category of digital communities, distinguishes the initiative of the UB and the Mental Health Federation of Catalonia for creating the first collaborative chatbot in the service of community mental health. Photo: Foto: Ars Electronica / vog.photo

The European Union awards the “CoActuem per la salut mental” project, promoted by the University of Barcelona 12/06/2024

News | Research
Designing combination therapies based on the different factors involved in the control of glucose synthesis by the liver could be a more effective strategy to address the treatment of the disease.

New therapeutic targets to fight type 2 diabetes 07/06/2024

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Professor Xavier Trepat receives the Rei Jaume I Prize on biomedical research.

Professor Xavier Trepat receives the Rei Jaume I Prize on biomedical research 05/06/2024

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The University of Barcelona, Spanish leading institution in sustainability, international research networks and academic reputation in the QS World University Rankings 04/06/2024

News | Rankings
The Social Innovation Laboratory (Living Lab), directed by UB professor María del Carmen Llasat, is organizing various activities with popular participation on 5 June to learn about the impact of climate change and air pollution in the urban environment.

A UB initiative promotes citizen science activities to find out about the impact of climate change in Barcelona 31/05/2024

News | Research
Rector Guàrdia, during his speech at the presentation of the Chair.

The University of Barcelona creates a new chair to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities 30/05/2024

News | Institutional | UB Chair
From left to right, Daniele Vico, Julián Porras y Federico Demaría.

UB research study shows the working conditions of scrap metal dealers and their role in the recycling process in Barcelona 30/05/2024

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University of Barcelona professor Adriana Isabel Figueroa receives the L’Oréal-UNESCO for women in science award 29/05/2024

News | Research

The University of Barcelona will host five students from Palestine as part of its refugee support programme 24/05/2024

News | Solidarity
Lola Valiente receives the University of Barcelona’s Peace Research Award.

A study on Andalusian immigration receives the University of Barcelona’s Peace Research Award 23/05/2024

News | Solidarity

The entire University of Barcelona calls for peace 22/05/2024

News | Institutional
A study by the UB Conservation Biology Team and IRBio warns that the current methodology for calculating population changes in wildlife at risk needs to be improved in order to increase their survival in the future.

Improving statistical methods to protect wildlife populations 21/05/2024

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The project led by the UB’s OpenSystems research group is promoting citizen participation to identify the public spaces that are most affected by episodes of extreme heat and to recommend strategies to improve the well-being of the neighbourhood.

Citizen science to map extreme heat in neighbourhoods 16/05/2024

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Teams from the University of Barcelona present two compatible and complementary methodologies that could be used together to improve the identification of the geographical origin and variety of hazelnuts and thus prevent commercial fraud in this product.

UB research presents new methodologies to prevent fraud in the determination of the geographical origin of hazelnuts 14/05/2024

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The UB consolidates its position and is once again the state leader in the CWUR ranking 13/05/2024

News | Institutional | Rankings
Escut de la UB.

Comunicat de l'equip de govern de la Universitat de Barcelona 12/05/2024

News | Institutional
The findings open a debate on the existence of cryptic species that could include organisms very similar in morphology and genome that have hitherto been classified in the same species. Credit: OIST

A study of a model animal in genetics calls into question the knowledge of genome evolution and the formation of species 08/05/2024

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Lecture by Peter Balakian, winner of Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 08/05/2024

News | Culture | Academic | Language
A team from the UB, the IBUB, the IRSD and the CIBERER has discovered how mutations in the <i>MAGEL2</i> gene — the cause of the syndrome — give rise to truncated and non-functional proteins that accumulate in the cell nucleus and, thus, could aggravate the symptoms of those affected by the pathology.

Advancing research into Schaaf-Yang syndrome, a rare disease that causes intellectual disability and congenital malformations 07/05/2024

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The UB Science Festival celebrates its tenth anniversary with record-breaking participation 03/05/2024

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