Libros
Tuesday, February 18 2020
Author: Amalia LeguizamónIn 1996 Argentina adopted genetically modified (GM) soybeans as a central part of its national development strategy. Today, Argentina is the third largest global grower and...
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Noticiero
Wednesday, December 18 2019
Fuente: SciDev La sensación generalizada tras el cierre de la cumbre de la ONU sobre Cambio Climático (COP25) de Madrid, el último domingo, es que se perdió una nueva oportunidad de atacar con...
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Libros
Friday, December 13 2019
By Banu SubramaniamSeries edited by Banu Subramaniam and Rebecca HerzigPUBLISHED: June 2019SUBJECT LISTING: Science and Technology Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Asian Studies /...
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Ambiente
Friday, December 13 2019
Source: EartherThe teens are pissed. Perhaps you’ve heard.Young people have cranked up the pressure all year on world leaders in an attempt to get them to address climate change. In September, 16...
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Derechos humanos
Monday, December 9 2019
Source: NatureTwo science publishers are reviewing the ethics of research papers in which scientists backed by China’s government used DNA or facial-recognition technology to study minority groups in...
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Noticiero
Friday, December 6 2019
Source: Latin American ScienceIn Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, tourism development is closing in on the Selva Maya, the home of the great jaguar, Panthera onca, which like other species has been...
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Libros
Thursday, December 5 2019
Source: PalgraveAuthors: Woods, A., Bresalier, M., Cassidy, A., Mason Dentinger, R.Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One Health and its HistoriesPalgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2018 editionAbout...
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Ambiente
Monday, December 2 2019
Source: Science MagazineDevelopment, most of it illegal, destroyed more than 9700 square kilometers of Brazilian Amazon rainforest in the year ending in July, according to a government estimate...
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Derechos humanos
Sunday, October 6 2019
Fuente: SciDev De los 300 asesinatos ocurridos en Brasil desde 2009 cuyas víctimas defensores de la Amazonia, solo 14 fueron llevados a juicio, según un reporte de la ONG Human Rights Watch (HRW).La...
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Genética
Monday, August 26 2019
Source: Science MagazineAs Zika virus raced through the Americas and the Caribbean in 2015 and 2016, it infected an estimated 800,000 people and left nearly 4000 newborns with serious brain damage....
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Ambiente
Monday, August 26 2019
Fuente: SciDev La pérdida de cobertura forestal resultante de la deforestación en la Amazonia brasileña puede ser 15 por ciento mayor que lo que apuntan las estimaciones oficiales. Así concluyó un...
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Ambiente
Monday, August 26 2019
Fuente: SciDev Cerca del 80 por ciento de los conflictos armados recientes del mundo han tenido lugar en puntos críticos de biodiversidad. Sin embargo, la investigación sobre el impacto de tales...
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Noticiero
Friday, July 12 2019
Source: Science MagazineSÃO PAULO, BRAZIL—Is Brazil experiencing a drug epidemic? The answer to that question has spiraled into a legal battle between scientists and government officials over the...
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Ambiente
Friday, July 12 2019
Fuente: SciDev Dos fármacos contra la epilepsia y afecciones cardíacas, un diurético y una droga para el asma, además de otros betabloqueantes y drogas psiquiátricas son algunos de los 17 fármacos...
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Ambiente
Sunday, June 23 2019
Fuente: SciDev En los países del norte de Sudamérica las olas de calor podrían aumentar entre cinco y diez veces para mediados de siglo, mientras que el Cono Sur los días con temperaturas...
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Genética
Sunday, June 9 2019
Source: NatureThe human body is a complex mosaic made up of clusters of cells with different genomes — and many of these clusters bear mutations that could contribute to cancer, according to a...
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Noticiero
Sunday, June 9 2019
Source: MercoPressThe first-ever celebration of the United Nations World Food Safety Day, to be marked globally on 7 June, aims to strengthen efforts to ensure that the food we eat is safe.
Every...
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Ambiente
Wednesday, May 29 2019
Fuente: SciDev [SANTIAGO] Argentina, Brasil, Chile y el Reino Unido se han unido en un proyecto que busca preservar la biodiversidad de zonas con una invasión de especies exóticas tan elevada que no...
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Derechos humanos
Tuesday, May 14 2019
Source: GizmodoMonsanto Co. lost a legal battle over its massively popular Roundup herbicide on Monday to the tune of $2.055 billion, with a jury in San Francisco ordering the court to pay out the...
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Derechos humanos
Tuesday, May 14 2019
Fuente: NoticelUn jurado popular de Oakland (California, EE.UU.) ordenó este lunes a Monsanto, propiedad de Bayer, pagar 2,000 millones de dólares a una pareja de ancianos al considerar que un...
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Noticiero
Wednesday, May 8 2019
Fuente: SciDev [SÃO PAULO] Los niños brasileños con sobrepeso que consumen frecuentemente alimentos ultraprocesados como galletas, bizcochos y salchichas, tienden a volverse adictos a ellos de...
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Noticiero
Wednesday, May 8 2019
Fuente: SciDev En un trabajo conjunto, 50 investigadores de Argentina, Brasil, China, Estados Unidos, India, Corea, Francia y Japón secuenciaron el genoma de una de las especies de maní más...
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Noticiero
Friday, April 19 2019
Source: GizmodoNew research describes the remains of a gigantic, four-legged mammalian carnivore that terrorized Africa some 22 million years ago.The name of this formidable creature is Simbakubwa...
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Noticiero
Monday, April 1 2019
Source: Nature Thousands of people march through Central London, UK in support of science and researchProtesters march in support of science and evidence-based policy in London in April 2017.Credit:...
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Genética
Wednesday, March 20 2019
Source: NatureThe World Health Organization (WHO) should create a global registry of studies that involve editing the human genome, and research funders and publishers should require scientists to...
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