Carla Rodrigues awarded “Prémio Jovem Investigador - Isabel Spencer Martins”
Carla Rodrigues, a Post-Doctoral researcher from Bac_Drugs Lab group from UCIBIO at Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade do Porto, was awarded the “Prémio Jovem Investigador - Isabel Spencer Martins” by Sociedade Portuguesa de Microbiologia (SPM).
Sara Pais awarded “ALFAGENE - Jovem Investigador em Microbiologia”
Sara Pais, PhD student in the Infection Biology Lab (led by Jaime Mota), at UCIBIO - FCT NOVA, was awarded the “AWARD ALFAGENE - Jovem Investigador em Microbiologia” for the best communication presented at the Congress of Microbiology and Biotechnology (MICRIOBIOTEC’17), held in Porto, Portugal (7-9 December 2017).
Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis generally consists of anti-inflammatory drugs
Teresa Santos-Silva, FCT investigator, explains the impact and relevance of her research:
Impact Pubblication
Treatment of rheumatoid arthritis generally consists of anti-inflammatory drugs, but here Teresa Santos-Silva explains why she hopes carbon monoxide will become the treatment of the future
The dominant theory on the evolution of sex chromosomes challenged
In many animals and plants, sex chromosomes show marked differences both in structural and genetic terms. This is related to the fact that these chromosomes have lost the ability to recombine over part of their length. This is particularly the case in the human species between the X chromosome and the Y chromosome whose size is considerably reduced.