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Fully recyclable packaging materials

Researchers at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country and Colorado State University (USA) have developed a class of biorenewable, biodegradable plastics that are an improvement on existing ones and promote the circular economy
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Prediction of the deterioration of roads of Bizkaia

Two models have been developed by a research group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country for the Road Pavement Management System of the Chartered Provincial Council of Bizkaia
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Resistance to antibiotics is on the rise

A UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country professor has analysed the impact of this problem which is expected to bring about the death of 26,000 people in Spain this year
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Solutions for problems in artificial intelligence

A study by the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has made significant advances in two types of problems in computer machine learning based on data
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Thermoeconomics applied to buildings

A study by the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has developed software that measures the degradation cost of energy quality in buildings
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Kevlar, a material used in safety clothing, now stable in sunlight and at high temperatures

In research by CIC nanoGUNE and the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country this heavy-duty has been hybridized with zinc oxide
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Dust storms on Mars spotted far away from the NASA Curiosity rover

The Planetary Sciences group of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country is studying the surface atmosphere of Mars during the Mars Science Laboratory mission
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Effect of pollutants inhaled during pregnancy

Within the framework of the INMA project begun 13 years ago, the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country is now exploring the effect of air pollutants on 4- to 6-year-olds
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Molecular mechanisms in spermatozoa

A study by the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has identified some molecular mechanisms that only operate in spermatozoa
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Bacterium that causes hospital infections

The UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country analyses the high capacity of A. baumannii, the possible cause of recurring outbreaks in ICUs, to persist on various surfaces
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Cartoons are appropriate for developing children’s narrative skills and values

A study by the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has analysed children’s media consumption and the use of cartoons to cultivate narrative skills and values
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UPV/EHU is one of the European leading institutions partnering with IBM to accelerate quantum computing
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Peter Felten: «Education is human work, and students need to be the actors in that work»
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A shape-memory material of bacterial cellulose

A group at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has optimised the biosynthesis process of bacterial cellulose by using the residues of cider production as food
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Secure quantum communications in the microwave range

UPV/EHU participation in an experiment that may revolutionize the field of secure communications, published in Nature Communications
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A new paradigm to repair cardiovascular diseases

The UPV/EHU is participating in a European project to repair cardiovascular diseases mixing nanotechnology, cardiology and light technologies
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Just before sewing with needles

Researchers at the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country establish that the Noailles burins were used to pierce soft materials such as hide
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A model bringing together dark matter and energy

A study by the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country combines dark matter and energy into a single fluid to explain the expansion of the universe and has been confirmed by real data
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A biomarker for diagnosing celiac disease in people on a gluten-free diet

The UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country patents a biomarker for diagnosing celiac disease in the blood of people who do not consume any gluten
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Texture-modified foods for people with dysphagia

A piece of research by the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country is calling for an effort to bring various thickeners into line with standard guidelines, which would offer increased clinical safeguards
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Gelatin scaffolds personalised in terms of shape and composition using 3D printers

The Biomat group of the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has created biomaterials at the Auckland Institute of Technology using gelatin that is a by-product of industrial waste
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A new system for treating type 1 diabetes mellitus

A piece of research by the UPV/EHU-CIBER BBN reduces the technical problems in microencapsulating pancreatic islets when treating type 1 diabetes mellitus
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Taming defective porous materials

Precise engineering of defects transforms metal–organic frameworks into selective heterogeneous catalysts for ethylene dimerization without activators or solvent
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Designing biomedical devices so that they can be monitored in the organism