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Chips for key sectors, artificial intelligence, precision fermentation and innovations to protect natural capital are technology trends for 2025

2025-01-10T13:35:14+01:00December 13th, 2024|Automotive, Autonomous and professional robotics, Big Data, Food, ICT, Materials Processing and Capital Equipment, Nutrition and Health, Omics sciences, Press Notes, Sustainability|

Designing and manufacturing specific chips for key sectors of the economy is one of the technological trends set to shape 2025 says the scientific team at the Eurecat technology centre. They also predict that generative artificial intelligence will continue to grow in the coming year with disruptive applications and greater integration with technologies including [...]

Centre for Omic Sciences builds on its research in metabolomics and proteomics with two new devices

2025-01-10T13:30:58+01:00December 5th, 2024|Omics sciences, Press Notes|

The Centre for Omic Sciences (COS), a joint unit of the Rovira i Virgili University and the Eurecat technology centre, is building on its cutting-edge research in metabolomics and proteomics applied to life sciences, biomedicine, agri-food and the environment with the installation of two new high-resolution and high-sensitivity mass spectrometers. Metabolomics and proteomics are [...]

Centre for Omic Sciences stresses role of microbiota in understanding and improving human health, nutrition and the environment

2024-12-24T09:54:16+01:00October 25th, 2024|Omics sciences, Press Notes|

The Centre for Omic Sciences (COS), a joint Eurecat technology centre and Rovira i Virgili University unit, has stressed at the COS 2024 Annual Symposium held in Reus the role of microbiota in innovation projects and studies conducted to understand and improve human health, nutrition and the environment. “It has been shown that balanced [...]

Centre for Omic Sciences to address the role of microbiota in nutritional, clinical and environmental studies

2024-09-24T10:54:51+02:00September 12th, 2024|Food, Health, Omics sciences, Press Notes|

This October, the second Symposium of the Centre for Omic Sciences, a joint unit of the Eurecat technology centre and Rovira i Virgili University (URV), will address the latest advances in understanding microbiota and their role in clinical studies in various fields of health, nutritional interventions and the environment with academic and industry experts. [...]

Study reveals benefits of red-fleshed apples for cardiovascular health

2024-09-24T09:34:42+02:00July 18th, 2024|Food, Health, Nutrition and Health, Omics sciences, Press Notes|

Red-fleshed apples are the ones with red skin and flesh. They belong to the Red Sun variety derived from commercial cultivation of red-fleshed “Redlove” apples originating in Switzerland, and in Catalonia they are mainly grown in Mollerussa. This red fruit stands out for its high anthocyanin content, a pigment from the flavonoid family that [...]

Eurecat takes part in OPTIPROT network in search of the best combination of proteins for a healthy and sustainable diet

2024-06-05T12:08:14+02:00April 11th, 2024|Food, Nutrition and Health, Omics sciences, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre is taking part in the Cervera Network of Excellence OPTIPROT project, coordinated by AZTI, which seeks to furnish the food industry with tools to find the best combination of protein sources and shift towards a healthy and sustainable food system. AZTI, the project's coordinador, together with the technology centres Eurecat, [...]

European Consortium to Study How to Reduce the Impact of Endocrine Disruptors on Pregnancy and Pre-puberty

2024-03-07T17:30:34+01:00March 7th, 2024|Health, Nutrition and Health, Omics sciences, Press Notes|

The European HYPIEND project, coordinated by the Eurecat technology centre, is studying the impact of endocrine disruptors on the hormonal system during pregnancy, the first 18 months of a baby’s life and during pre-puberty to gain the understanding needed to devise strategies to minimise exposure to these chemicals and minimize their adverse effects on [...]

Centre for Omic Sciences underscores potential of metabolomics and nuclear magnetic resonance for personalised nutrition and medicine

2024-01-17T12:35:16+01:00December 14th, 2023|Food, Health, Nutrition and Health, Omics sciences, Press Notes|

The Centre for Omic Sciences, a joint Eurecat technology centre and Rovira i Virgili University unit, has underscored at the COS 2023 Annual Symposium held in Reus and online the potential of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and for studying people’s biomarkers to unlock personalised nutrition and medicine. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) “is an analytical [...]

Eurecat seeks to identify key biomarkers in major depression to increase diagnosis and treatment accuracy

2023-12-15T12:16:58+01:00October 19th, 2023|Health, Omics sciences, Press Notes|

The Eurecat technology centre is working in the European OPADE project for the identification of key biomarkers in major depressive disorder to support healthcare professionals in their decision-making and increase the accuracy of diagnosis and antidepressant treatment. Specifically, the Eurecat research team is analysing multi-omics data from hundreds of patients with severe depression “to find [...]

Centre for Omic Sciences in Reus cements its leadership in omics technologies research with new high-resolution device

2023-07-20T12:58:15+02:00June 15th, 2023|Health, Omics sciences, Press Notes|

The Reus-based Centre for Omic Sciences, a joint Rovira i Virgili University and Eurecat technology centre initiative and a node in the OmicsTech Unique Scientific and Technical Infrastructure, has acquired a new high-resolution mass spectrometer which is crucial for metabolomics and proteomics research in life sciences, biomedicine, agri-food and the environment. The Thermo Scientific Orbitrap [...]

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