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A plant-derived material can clean water contaminated by metals and persistent compounds with high efficiency

The Centre for Materials Physics (CFM, CSIC-UPV/EHU) has developed a material that can clean water and other fluids contaminated by heavy metals and organic compounds such as pharmaceuticals. Laboratory tests show that the material can trap pollutants with efficiencies close to 100 % in the case of heavy metals, and over 50 % in the case of some organic compounds.

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Bacteria in nutrient-rich environments reduce their genes (and why knowing this is helpful in biomedicine and bioapplications)

Knowing how bacteria adapt to their environment opens promising reserach avenues in biotechnology, biomedicine, or the environment. A study from CEAB shows that a nutrient-rich environment favors bacteria that have lost genes involved in processes such as amino acid self-production. Dispensing with genes represents an energy-saving for them and gives them an advantage in those contexts

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Bioluminescent bacteria and algae for illuminating cities

The CRAG has just embarked on BioLumCity, a singular project that aims to offer an advanced form of real bioluminescence based on bacteria and algae, with applications in architecture and urban design.

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Renewable energy or biodiversity: the BIOPAIS project analyses potential impacts of Mediterranean wind farms

Wind farm

The European Union aims to become climate neutral by 2050. To achieve this goal, the offshore wind energy must cover the 30% of the electricity demand of the member states, which means that the current marine areas used for the production of this type of energy has to be multiplied by 15.  

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The WECANN project creates the world's first database on the traditional uses of Cannabis

The Institut Botànic de Barcelona (IBB) is working on this project to study Cannabis in a comprehensive way. As part of the project, they have created the world's first database of traditional uses of Cannabis. The project is aimed at collecting and analysing traditional uses of the plant, finding new molecules of interest and studying Cannabis morphological, genetic and phytochemical variability.

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