Histórico

Researchers at the University of Granada (UGR) have studied the natural history and conservation status in Spain of the only known population of Polygala balansae in Europe, a thorny bush that can grow up to 1.5 metres high, which was...

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Gene increases effectiveness of drugs used to fight cancer Researchers at the University of Granada have found a suicide gene, called \’gene E\’, which leads to the death of tumour cells derived from breast, lung and colon cancer, and prevents...

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Melatonin regulates sleep better than somniferous Scientists of the University of Granada state that the exogenous administration of melatonin corrects the sleep/wakefulness pace when human biological clock gets altered. At present, this substance is being widely used by the pharmaceutical...

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– Olive pulp compound inhibits cancer A research group of the University of Granada has found out that maslinic acid, a compound present in the leaf and the olive skin wax extracted from alpeorujo (crushed olive pulp), has the capacity...

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Olive compound slows HIV spread Researchers from the University of Granada and Hospital Carlos III in Madrid, verified that maslinic acid – found in wax from olive skin – inhibits serin-protease, the enzyme used by HIV to release itself from...

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Researchers from the ‘Ingenieria Tisular’ of the University of Granada have made the first artificial cornea model using stem cells of rabbit’s sclerocorneal limbus. This result is a great advance due to the shortage of donors of this transparent epithelium...

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OLIVE OIL COMPOUND SLOWS HIV SPREAD Maslinic acid – a natural product extracted from dry olive-pomace oil – inhibits serin-protease, an enzyme used by HIV to release itself from the infected cell into the extracellular environment and spread the infection...

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