Olga Genilloud has a Ph.D.in Chemistry and is the current scientific director of the MEDINA Foundation, located in the Health Sciences Technological Park of Granada, Andalusia. It is a leading research center regarding the search of micro-organisms which can be converted into drugs at an international level. This Foundation has one of the largest microbial […]
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Crustaceans and molluscs to study the effects of pharmaceutical water pollution on the ocean
This research is being conducted by researchers from the Andalusian Centre for Marine Science and Technology and has been financially supported by the Andalusian Government and the European Union. Drugs get to marine environments through waste water because the human body excretes drug particles which can’t be cleared in water treatment plants. The effects of […]
Scientists develop an intelligent fabric able to administer drugs through direct contact
Researchers of NanoMyp, a spin off enterprise created at the University of Granada are developing an intelligent tissue that will administer drugs in a controlled way responding to external stimulation as temperature or the PH value of the skin.
A DNA test helps in medicine personalization to get more efficient treatments
A DNA test id able to determine with drugs make us feel bad just using a saliva sample. According to the researchers who have developed this test, a 30% of patients do not respond well to their treatment; the motive is that the patient’s organism is not prepared to assimilate that drug.