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On Sustainable Gastronomy Day, we are reminded that transforming food systems goes beyond improving nutritional value—it must also preserve what makes food meaningful to people.
Through his UNU-BI...
One promise of science is to fix what seems unfixable, and the visible progress in knowledge, approaches, techniques, and technologies confirms that it plans to keep its word—especially in the heal...
Can we foster industrial processes that are less taxing on fluvial ecosystems?
Fellow Facundo Dominguez is researching the molecular battery that allows some yeasts to degrade highly toxic azo dy...
Today is World Wildlife Day. For 2026, we are celebrating medicinal and aromatic plants as the catalog and creative machines they are for the creation of potentially useful molecules, something we ...
Humans have used cells as tools for thousands of years, starting with fermentation. Current technology enables the precise manipulation of the cell's machinery to perform functions that are too tox...
Bacteria can construct strength by numbers when they produce biofilms, an agglutination of bacterial cells, carefully regulated by chemical communications between them to exert an influence on thei...
Is there a link between preserving Cuban forests and curing breast cancer?
Yes!
Cuban researcher Talía Frómeta tells us about her work looking for molecules that can stop tumoral growth in the s...
Making new or better proteins is not a new trend, but the advent of powerful biochemical AI algorithms and precise gene editing has made it a much more accessible process.
Six UNU-BIOLAC fellows ...
Swift propagation is cornerstone to successful germplasm banks, and potato, casava and other tubers are the basis of Latin American and Caribbean diets, a biocultural characteristic that will becom...
Ok, this year's World Water Week is about water for climate action, and one of the most noticeable effects of a warming climate on the planet is the reduction of dissolved oxygen in the water.
Wat...
In 2014, the United Nations General Assembly declared 15 July as World Youth Skills Day to celebrate the strategic importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, decent work, and ...
It's one thing to read a genome, another to understand it.
Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria have been co-evolving with plants since they conquered the soil, and we exclude them from our agricultural systems at our peril. Four of UNU-BIOLAC's academic p...
The United Nations University Biotechnology Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean (UNU-BIOLAC) is informing all associates , particularly those intending to submit proposals for the funding...
Calling for proposals to fund short research fellowships and high-level training courses in Latin America and the Caribbean. Proposals must be biotechnological in nature. Visit unu.edu/biolac for m...
Bioprospection is the first step for solving problems by harnessing nature's long proven solutions.
Over the years, many of UNU-BIOLAC's funded projects have been part of the bioprospection effort,...
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The Theorical-Practical Course on the Study of Neglected Diseases: Diagnosis, Molecular Epidemiology and Applied Bioinformatics was held in México City in March 2024....
UNU-BIOLAC's Head, Dr. Gustavo Fermin, speaks with Julio César Pineda @BrujulaInternacionalgv about biotechnology, its potentialities for problem-solving, the objectives of the program for
July 28th marks the birthday of the Hepatitis B virus discoverer and vaccine developer, Dr Blumberg. These achievements turned in winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976.
Each y...
We want to showcase the experience of our 2019/2020 Fellow, Dr Estela Bini. She reminisces about her time in Mexico during her project binding Diabetes and TB in an experimental model. In additio...