This article presents Community of Practice for Attendance (CoP +Attendance), awarded funding through the 7th Edition of the University of Minho's Programme to Support Projects for Innovation and Development in Teaching and Learning [2024/2nd Call], coordinated by the IDEA- UMinho Centre, throughout 2025. The CoP +Attendance addresses absenteeism among undergraduate students. The initiative will focus in Geolog...
BACKGROUND: The new coronavirus of 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread globally and has repercussions within ophthalmological care. It has caused ocular manifestations in some patients, which can spread through eye secretions. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this review was to summarize the currently available evidence on COVID-19 with regard to its impli...
Oral Presentation at "35th International Conference on Geochemistry and Health"
Untargeted nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) metabolomics was employed, for the first time to our knowledge, to characterize the metabolome of human osteoblast (HOb) cells and extracts in the presence of non-poled or negatively poled poly-L-lactic acid (PLLA). The metabolic response of these cells to this polymer, extensively used in bone regeneration strategies, may potentially translate into useful markers ind...