Biological and health sciences

Symptom tracking is vital to control contagion of COVID-19 in Puerto Rico

Submitted on 3 April 2020 - 2:28pm

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Executives from Ponce Health Sciences University and the Puerto Rico Public Health Trust explain how the COVID-19 Epidemiological Surveillance System can help save lives on the Island

$500,000 grant to start programs of Telemedicine and Telehealth in Puerto Rico

Submitted on 26 March 2020 - 12:40pm

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The Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust (PRSTRT) and the Puerto Rico Public Health Trust (PRPHT) have initiated a pilot project to establish Telemedicine and Telehealth programs in Puerto Rico. It consists of the purchase of specialized equipment that will allow remote health services to be offered in the Castañer communities in Lares, Florida, Rincón, Arroyo, Las Marías, Maricao and Culebra.

Cumbre Allbiotech en busca de boricuas

Submitted by Cristina C Torres Cabán on 23 March 2020 - 9:59am

La Cumbre Allbiotech está buscando a sus próximos 100 líderes en biotecnología de Latinoamérica. Hasta el momento he sido la única puertorriqueña en participar y andan en busca de más boricuas:

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Disponibilidad de Clon de Reverse Transcriptase

Submitted by Giovanna Guerrero-Medina on 20 March 2020 - 4:14pm

Amigos, un miembro de nuestra comunidad que se encuentra dando apoyo en los esfuerzos de detección de COVID-19 en Colombia, nos comenta que la enzima Reverse Transcriptase está escaseando en ese país.

Si alguien tiene un clon o cultivo de E.Coli expresando RT, o si tienen alguna otra manera de ayudarlos a conseguir la enzima, los científicos de Colombia se lo agradecerían.

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ACHÚ, a book to educate children about COVID-19 in a simple and fun way

Submitted on 14 March 2020 - 6:00pm

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The Puerto Rico Public Health Trust (PRPHT), was given the task of developing the “Achú” Activity Book, to educate children about the new Coronavirus COVID-19. The book was created with the idea of raising awareness in children, in a simple and fun way, of the world’s reality in relation to this disease, which is already considered a global pandemic, and nobody is exempt from it.