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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Noticiero
Thursday, March 14 2019
Fuente: SciDev [BUENOS AIRES] La autoproducción de alimentos por medio de huertas y granjas familiares, escolares y comunitarias facilita el acceso a productos frescos y saludables a más de 4...
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Genética
Sunday, March 3 2019
Source: Digital TrendsChina’s CRISPR baby saga continues to rage on. After the birth of gene-edited twins in China last year, and the reported pregnancy of a second woman, the world’s scientific...
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Genética
Sunday, March 3 2019
Source: NatureThe controversial topic of the first babies born from gene-edited embryos was one of the most censored on Chinese social media last year, according to researchers at the University of...
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Ambiente
Tuesday, February 26 2019
Fuente: SciDev Un sistema de transporte público eficiente, cero emisiones y con una visión intermodal es parte de la economía verde que Costa Rica pretende alcanzar para el 2050.Esta visión está...
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Noticiero
Thursday, February 14 2019
Source: NatureA person’s sex can affect the kinds of cancer-causing mutations they develop, according to a genomic analysis spanning nearly 2,000 tumours and 28 types of cancer.The results show...
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Noticiero
Thursday, February 14 2019
Fuente: SciDev.net Para hacer frente a la amenaza contra la seguridad alimentaria que representan los ciclones tropicales en el Caribe, la costa centroamericana del Pacífico y el Atlántico Norte,...
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Noticiero
Saturday, February 2 2019
Fuente: SciDev [SANTIAGO] La región de Latinoamérica y el Caribe (LAC) es la que ha experimentado la mayor reducción de sus humedales naturales a nivel mundial entre 1970 y 2015, con un declive de...
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Genética
Tuesday, January 15 2019
Source: RoyalSociety Open ScienceThe ecological roots of human susceptibility to social influence: a pre-registered study investigating the impact of early-life adversityPierre O. Jacquet , Lou Safra...
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Noticiero
Saturday, January 5 2019
Fuente: SciDev Las ranas pueden ser un aliado valioso de la ciencia, no solo como indicadores biológicos del bienestar del ambiente, sino también como esperanza para la cura de muchas enfermedades...
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Noticiero
Thursday, December 20 2018
Source: MercoPressUnited States presidents tend to receive their fair share of honors, but Donald Trump may want to ignore his latest one. A newly discovered amphibian that buries its head in the sand...
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Noticiero
Wednesday, December 12 2018
Fuente: ScieDev.net [SANTIAGO] Usando desechos domésticos y electrónicos de bajo costo, un técnico especializado en tecnologías de información y comunicación (TIC) y un profesor de Biología crearon...
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Genética
Friday, November 30 2018
Source: NatureHe Jiankui, a Chinese scientist who claims he helped to produce the first people born with edited genomes — twin baby girls — appeared today at a gene-editing summit in Hong Kong to...
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Genética
Monday, November 26 2018
Source: NatureA Chinese scientist claims that he has helped make the world's first genome-edited babies — twin girls named Lulu and Nana, who were born this month. The announcement has provoked shock,...
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Genética
Tuesday, November 13 2018
Source: Science MagazineScarce oxygen, cold temperatures, and intense ultraviolet radiation make the Andes a tough place to live. How did humans adapt to such heights? A new study of ancient and...
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Noticiero
Monday, October 29 2018
The use and domestication of Theobroma cacao during the mid-Holocene in the upper Amazon Sonia Zarrillo, Nilesh Gaikwad, Claire Lanaud, Terry Powis, Christopher Viot, Isabelle Lesur, Olivier Fouet,...
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