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Eating sh** (about the microbiome)

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Manuel Martínez Maldonado

This article summarizes the scientific data about how the microbiome can be a treatment for digestive bacteria.

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The relationship between phone anntennas and human health

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Abraham Ruiz García

This article summarizes several articcles that have studied the correlation between the exposure to cell phones towers and the risk to develop cancer. Although several studies suggests that the number of people developing cancer is related to the proximity to a cell phone tower, in Puerto Rico there are no regulations about where is the less dangerous to place these towers,

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UPR students received awards at ABRCMS at Tennessee

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Several students from Puerto Rican institutions were awarded at the Annual Biomedical Reseacrh Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS)at Tennessee.

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The millenary journey of a species

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Scientists from the University of Puerto Rico in Mayagüez studied the mitochondrial DNA of Caribbean geckos to understand their evolution.

 

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Finding Sigatoka-resistant varieties of bananas and plantains

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An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the USDA, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez and University of Florida, completed a research study to determine the suceptibility of local varieties of bananas and plaintains to black Sigatoka, a disease cause by a fungus. They also identified new varieties that are more resistant to black Sigatoka and that could be planted in Puerto Rico in the future.

The millennial travels of a gecko

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Tener evidencia del pasado es esencial para preservar la cultura humana. La evidencia del pasado puede ser guardada en formato digital o en formato análogo; mediante fotografía o árboles genealógicos. Sin embargo, estas herramientas suelen ser poco útiles si queremos explorar nuestra historia hace siglos o milenios atrás.

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