COVID-19 in pregnancy

Vascular remodelling in reproduction and development

We are interested in combining plant and material sciences to harness plants as biofactories to produce complex biological materials with tailored properties, with particular focus on cotton. Cotton is the global leading natural fiber involving 250 million around the world from farmer to retailer. Combining chemical synthesis of cotton fibers building blocks and a comprehensive understanding of the underlying biochemical and physiological mechanisms, we can produce cotton fibers with tailored properties such as increased hydrophobicity (think about your rain jacket). We coined this approach as Material Farming. This approach is an opportunity to implement sustainable alternative(s) to produce functional fibers overcoming the chemical fiber post-processing known to generate large amounts of chemical waste hazardous to the enviroment and humans. Finally, our approach will allow us to harness higher organisms' complexity, such as cotton plants, which can change how we currently think about the design of complex biological materials, plant sciences, and their physiology and biochemistry with a profound impact on the future of cotton-related industries.

We explore hidden signatures from the archaeological artifacts using artificial intelligence (AI) to infer human behavior. Our research explores cultural evolution and transmission in the Levant, the origin of domestication of cattle in the Fertile Crescent, and the relations between hominins and fire use. We combine the dozens of thousand unearthed and available archaeological remains (pottery, statues, stone tools, etc.) with AI to infer new relations between cultures - the known of the unknowns - while pinpointing the origin of revolutionary technologies their dispersion and implications to the cultural transmission continuum. We investigate the domestication of cattle, and their use for cultures was originated in the Fertile Crescent. What if older organic artifacts (plow) perished and the use of animals for plowing started earlier? We use AI combined with ancient cattle bones to find morphological changes induced by plowing and inform whether this behavior started earlier, implying a new conceptual understanding of a revolutionary technology that changed our way of living until today. Pyrotechnology is one of the most revolutionary advances in human evolution initiated about 2 million years ago. This technology allowed, for example, the cooking of food, changing our biochemistry (e.g., more energetic intake) and physiology (e.g., larger brain size). We develop new AI-based methodologies applied to flint stone tools (the most durable artifacts) that act as a thermometer to infer hominin relations with fire deep in time.

electron transfer in bio-molecules

spin dependent electrochemistry

enantio-selective interaction

Non-Abelian states at filling factor 5/2

Edge-states and disorder effects

Quantum spin liquids in frustrated magnets

Applications of dualities in condensed matter physics

The status and role of T regulatory cells in autoimmune diseases.

Elucidation of the mechanisms (effects on main pathways, cell types, cytokines and other pathogenic molecules) by which the tolerogenic peptide ameliorates autoimmune disease manifestations in animal models and in patients with SLE and Sjogren Syndrome.

Living neuronal networks Neuronal stimulation Language and the brain

Molecular biology and genome organization in the lower eukaryot <I>Entamoeba histolytica</I>.

Transcriptional epigenetic gene silencing mechanisms

Development of vaccine against <I>Entamoeba histolytica</I>.

Uses of derivatives of Allicin against hypertension and obesity

A delivery system for the in-vivo killing of cancer cells by Allicin