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.
New study shows for the first time the ability of a marine bacterium to convert apple pulp waste into a novel exopolysaccharide Researchers form the Biochemical Engineering Research Lab at UCIBIO-NOVA, demonstrated for the first time the ability of a marine bacterium, Alteromonas macleodii Mo169, to grow on apple pulp waste, a low-cost feedstock, as sole substrate, and secrete high amounts of a novel exopolysaccharide.