Histórico

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 their growth. The importance of this new gene is...

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An expert in forensic anthropology argues that the database should include computer records of citizens such as anthropological data, physiognomic characteristics, medical information, radiographic files, dental records and numbers of different identity documents. Tzipi Kahana believes that radiographic techniques, together...

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Next week Granada will host the “1st Spanish – Japanese Meeting on Frontier Technologies: “Realities and Challenges in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)”, a top-level scientific meeting sponsored by the Toshiba International Foundation (TIFO) and organized by the University of...

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Children who eat fish more than 3 times per week show a worse performance in the general cognitive, executive and perceptual-manipulative areas. Those with higher levels of exposure to mercury show a generalised delay in cognitive, memory and verbal areas....

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Jihadist networks “have been trying to implement their structure in Spain” since the 2004 Madrid train bombings, and therefore it is necessary for police authorities to “design and implement solutions to reduce the magnitude of the jihadist structural phenomenon in...

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Video games can have a very positive influence in the education of children, and, when used in moderation, they do not harm children’s academic performance. This conclusion emerges from a research conducted by Ángeles Llorca Díez from the Department of...

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A researcher of the University of Granada has designed a new system for the mobility of military troops within a battlefield based on the mechanisms used by ant colonies to move using a commercial videogame. This work, developed at the...

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Figures are impressive and, at the same time, shameful for the civilized world of 21st century: according to data from the United Nations through the UN.GIFT programme managed by UNODC/UNDD (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime), 161 countries are...

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In the last update of the scoring ascribed by Google to web pages, which took place at the end of October 2009, the web of the University of Granada (Spain) has obtained 9 points. This scoring, so-called «PageRank», measures the...

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Scientists from the Biological Station of Doñana (CSIC) and the University of Granada have characterized the population genetic diversity of an animal species (a mouse, in this case) in its whole distribution. This information is essential for developing successful conservation...

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