UCIBIO team awarded funding for Bilateral Cooperation in Science between Portugal and Germany
Cristiano Mota, researcher at the XTAL - Macromolecular Crystallography research lab at UCIBIO-NOVA, coordinates the project that has been awarded funding in the scope of the Programme for Cooperation in Science between Portugal and Germany - 2023-24.
Cannabis alters female sexual response
Researchers from the Drug Targets and Biomarkers (DTB) research lab at UCIBIO- Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Porto (FFUP), in collaboration with researchers from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP), conducted a research work published in the European Journal of Neuroscience, which indicates that cannabis consumption can affect female sexual response.
Maria Reis on the FCT Scientific Council of Exact Sciences and Engineering
Maria Ascensão Reis, leader of the Biochemical Engineering Lab at UCIBIO-NOVA, was appointed by the President of the Foundation for Science and Technology as a member of the Scientific Council of Exact Sciences and Engineering.
Prestigious grant awarded to team studying how microbes make ‘nanowires’ to exhale electrons
The rising temperatures threatening life on our planet are caused in part by microbes that produce 50% of atmospheric methane, a gas 30 times more potent than CO2 at trapping heat.