Immature compost can be toxic for plants. This is why researchers of the Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Seville have counted on the collaboration of the University of Huelva to develop a device test the quality of compost before applying it over a crop. It is an electronic nose that uses smell to […]
Month: November 2015
Mariano Viedma, orphan drugs based on cosmetics to combat rare diseases
After studying Pharmacy, Mariano Viedma though that he would work in nutrition, but we end up in Barcelona, where he worked for two large companies for twelve years. He used his knowledge in Pharmacy to set up Inves Biofarm, in Granada, a company that develops and manufactures orphan drugs, developed to treat a rare medical […]
SCAN: global promotion of Spanish contemporary art through social media
Three Andalusian architects –from La Carolina (Jaén), Almería and Morón de la Frontera (Seville)—and one New Yorker have launched in London, the first platform to promote emerging Spanish contemporary art. In a little over a year, they have created a directory with more than 140 artists and established contact in fifty countries. In the summer […]
Rosario Sánchez-Martín, nanotechnology to fight diseases such as cancer
Rosario Sánchez-Martín has a degree in Pharmacy from the University of Granada and started her career as a researcher in Southampton. Then she moved to Edinburg, but finally she arrived to Granada to work in Genyo, the Pfizer-University of Granada-Junta de Andalucía Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research. Her research is focused on the development […]