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Tuberculosis has shaped human society since the Stone Age

Researchers from the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP), the Comparative Medicine and Bioimaging Centre (CMCiB-IGTP), CIBERES and the UPC have discovered, by means of a mathematical model that combines biological, anthropological and historical data, that not only have humans continued to survive despite tuberculosis infections, but tuberculosis has probably played a key role in shaping human society as we know it. The article has been published in the journal Scientific Reports.

Regarding the outbreak of COVID-19

UPC is closely monitoring health authorities’ advice

Creation of the IMTech, the Institute of Mathematics of the UPC

Located at the UPC-FME, with the aim of promoting the research in mathematics

Support protocol for victims of physical or sexual assault

New UPC protocol, approved on December 11

Researchers manage to perform biomechanical simulations up to 20 times faster

With a new method created by the UPC-EEBE, KU Leuven and Stanford University

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67 master's degrees
46 doctoral programmes

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228 lifelong learning programmes
15 patents last year
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