• Analyzing Policymaking for Tuberculosis Control in Nigeria 

      Ahmad, Nura M. R.; Montañola i Sales, Cristina; Prats, Clara; Musa, Mustapha; López, Daniel; Casanovas Garcia, Josep (Complexity, 2018-11-07)
      Today, tuberculosis (TB) is still one of the major threats to humankind, being the first cause of death by an infectious disease worldwide. TB is a communicable chronic disease that every year affects ...
    • Design and evaluation of an osteogenesis-on-a-chip microfluidic device incorporating 3D cell culture 

      García Granada, Andrés-Amador; Bahmaee, Hossein; Owen, Robert; Boyle, Liam; Perrault, Cecile M.; Reilly, Gwendolen C.; Claeyssens, Frederik (Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. Vol.8 (2018), 557111, 2020-09)
      Microfluidic-based tissue-on-a-chip devices have generated significant research interest for biomedical applications, such as pharmaceutical development, as they can be used for small volume, high ...
    • Development of a three-dimensional bioengineered platform for articular cartilage regeneration 

      Semino, Carlos; Rubí-Sans, Gerard; Recha Sancho, Lourdes Georgina; Pérez-Amodio, Soledad; Mateos-Timoneda, Miguel Ángel; Engel, Elisabeth (Biomolecules. Vol.10, n.1 (2020), 52, 2019-12)
      Degenerative cartilage pathologies are nowadays a major problem for the world population. Factors such as age, genetics or obesity can predispose people to suffer from articular cartilage degeneration, ...
    • Effective photodynamic inactivation of 26 Escherichia coli strains with different antibiotic susceptibility profiles: a planktonic and biofilm study 

      Nonell, Santi; Agut Bonsfills, Montserrat; Gulías Borau, Òscar; McKenzie, Giselle; Bayó, Miquel (Antibiotics. Vol.9, n.3 (2020), 98, 2020-02)
      The emergence of multidrug-resistant bacteria is a growing problem and alternative therapies are being sought to effectively address this issue. The aim of this study is to assess a range of Escherichia ...
    • New developments in vertebroplasty materials 

      Borrós i Gómez, Salvador; Bardají, Sara (Afinidad. Vol.75, n.583 (2018), p.165-174, 2018-07)
      Increasing life expectancy is leading to an increase in age-related diseases, like osteoporosis, which often involve the breakdown of bone. One of the main problems related with such disease is the ...