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A new drug to treat cancer to be made from a Puerto Rican patent

Submitted on 8 September 2021 - 11:47am

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Gerardo E. Alvarado León

After 14 years of studying the anticancer effects of the medicinal mushroom Ganoderma lucidum, Dr. Michelle Martínez Montemayor achieved “the dream of every researcher”: to contribute with new technologies to the health of human beings, in her case, through the development of a drug.

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Sustainable Research Pathways Workshop & Summer Experience

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Eager to expand your research and establish productive collaborations with renowned scientists at a Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratory?  This is your opportunity! Through SRP, faculty and students contribute to multi- and inter-disciplinary research that is changing the world.  Berkeley Lab staff are looking for scientists interested in working on large research problems that intersect with your research interests.

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Participe de una encuesta sobre la incidencia, impactos y manejo del sargazo en el Caribe

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¿Usted vive o trabaja en el Caribe y / o regiones adyacentes? ¿Tiene experiencia con pesca, pesquerías, turismo, recreación acuática, otros negocios costeros, y/o el manejo de la costa y sus recursos? ¿Ha tenido contacto con floraciones de sargazo o algún otro evento de floración de algas en el Caribe?

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*** Multiple Post-Doc / Research Scientists Positions Available ***

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WE ARE HIRING MULTIPLE POST-DOC/RESEARCH SCIENTISTS for our Puerto Rico COVID-19 Variant Surveillance Initiative (PRSCVI). If you have a background in biomedical sciences, biochemistry, molecular biology, virology, and or microbiology please apply. If you have experience with NGS (NANOPORE) and bioinformatics, we will like to hear from you!

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Wu Tsai Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunities

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I am happy to announce a new and exciting postdoctoral fellowship program that I designed and am helping to lead here at Yale. The Wu Tsai Postdoctoral Fellowships program seeks applications from soon-to-be or recent PhDs interested in interdisciplinary research at the frontiers of neuroscience.

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Experts tracked and addressed COVID-19 rumors and misinformation in Puerto Rico

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Mercy Corps Puerto Rico, together with Puerto Rico Public Health Trust (PRPHT), Ciencia Puerto Rico (CienciaPR), Ciencia en Tus Manos (CETM) and Internews developed a Rumor Tracking Program "Infórmate, Protégete, Vacunate" on news related to vaccines and COVID-19 in Puerto Rico. The effort ran from March to June and collected more than 1,000 rumors that were categorized by risk levels (high, medium and low). Much of the misinformation and rumors collected revolved around the safety of the coronavirus vaccine.

Let's talk about the Delta variant

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The arrival of the Delta variant has changed the landscape of the pandemic. Before we get into the details, the good news: vaccines work and protect us from serious consequences, hospitalization and death if we get the Delta variant (and the other variants) and it gives us COVID-19. The prevention measures that we already know also work to protect us from Delta and the other variants.

You can read the full story in the Spanish version of this post.

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