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A new finding in the fight against AIDS is named after two UVic-UCC researchers

Christian Brander and Javier Martínez Picado, researchers in the Chair in Infectious Diseases and Immunity at UVic-UCC, are part of a team of scientists who have found a link between HIV and macrophages - the cells that the virus uses as reservoirs to subsequently reproduce...

The UVic-UCC Chair in Palliative Care produces a directory of COVID-19 resources

The Chair in Palliative Care at the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC) and the Catalan Oncology Institute (ICO) has produced a directory containing important documentation and resources on the COVID-19 pandemic. These materials have been produced to the highest scientific...

UVic-UCC leads a consensus document of recommendations for ethical and clinical decision-making in residences in the context of COVID-19

Palliative care is the legally stipulated care for people suffering from the advanced stages of a chronic disease or who are in a situation where their life is coming to an end. This type of care involves optimising the quality of life of the patient...

UVic-UCC becomes a one hundred percent online university and transfers its entire academic activity to the Internet

Two weeks after moving to online teaching as a result of the suspension of face-to-face academic activities due to the coronavirus outbreak, classes on all bachelor's degree courses at the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC) are continuing through a variety of...

Carlo Manzo is co-organising the AnDi Challenge, a scientific challenge to solve the problem of the anomalous diffusion of particles based on simple trajectories

The coordinator of the Quantitative Biolmaging research group (QuBi Lab) at UVic-UCC, Carlo Manzo, is organising the AnDi Challenge with members of other European universities and research centres. This scientific challenge is aimed at other researchers, and aims to bring the scientific community together to...

Mireia Bartrons and Sandra Brucet publish a study showing that bottom-up relationships are stronger than top-down trophic relationships in trophic networks in Europe lakes

All ecosystems, and aquatic ecosystems are no exception, are made up of different trophic levels, or in other words, several rings that make up a food chain. The predator-prey relationships between more than two of these levels are known as trophic cascades, and can significantly...

Statement by the UVic-UCC to the university community on the coronavirus

Following the declaration of the new coronavirus as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Balmes University Foundation, the rector's office of the University of Vic - University of Central Catalonia and the institution's Health and Safety...

A new model of the worm C. elegans to progress in the study of a rare disease of the nervous system

Chromosome X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X ALD) is a rare genetic disease in which long-chain fatty acids accumulate in the blood and the nervous tissue, and where the myelin in the neurons is damaged. People who suffer from it (1 in 14,700 newborns) may have, among other...

The FERTIMANURE launch meeting brings together the 21 international partners in the livestock manure research project in Vic

Representatives of the 21 partners in the FERTIMANURE project met in Vic on 9 and 10 January, at the meeting to launch this European research project led by the BETA Technological Center (Biodiversity, Ecology and Technology and Environmental and Food Management) at the University of...

Physical activity modifies how our DNA works, according to a study co-authored by Roberto Elosua

Physical activity is linked to changes in the structure of DNA without changing the sequence of letters in genes, their primary structure, according to a study by the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM) with the participation of Roberto Elosua, coordinator of the IMIM...

Research links sedentary lifestyles to urinary incontinence in older women

Researchers in the Ageing Well research group at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU), working with the coordinator of the Methodology, Methods Models and Outcomes of Health and Social Science research group (M3O) at the University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia (UVic-UCC)...

Italian healthcare professionals and faculty from the University of Siena take part in a tailor-made course on intercultural health competencies at UVic-UCC

A delegation from the University of Siena took part in a tailor-made training course organised by UVic-UCC on intercultural competences in healthcare this week. The students on the course - six professionals from different healthcare fields linked to the Italian university - attended a series...

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