Cosmos: Scientific literacy for everyone

Submitted by Wilson Gonzalez-Espada on 16 July 2014 - 6:48pm

COSMOS. Divulgación científica para todos

Ciencia Puerto Rico and Daniel Romero Álvarez, from Antoncha Verde, describe the origins and goals of the new Cosmos series.

Weight gain is associated with reduced striatal response to palatable food.

Submitted by Wilson Gonzalez-Espada on 15 July 2014 - 3:18pm

Weight gain is associated with reduced striatal response to palatable food.

Stice E, Yokum S, Blum K, Bohon C.

No food without agriculture

Submitted on 14 July 2014 - 9:26pm

This article is reproduced by CienciaPR with permission from the original source.

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El Nuevo Día

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Pedro Bosque Pérez / pedro.bosque@gfrmedia.com

Puerto Rico only produces 15% of the food it consumes, which represents a threat to the archipelago's food security.

The original version of this article is in Spanish. You can read it by clicking on ESPAÑOL at the top right corner of your screen.

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An Analysis of Arthropod Interceptions by APHIS-PPQ and Customs and Border Protection in Puerto Rico

Submitted by Wilson Gonzalez-Espada on 11 July 2014 - 7:20pm

An Analysis of Arthropod Interceptions by APHIS-PPQ and Customs and Border Protection in Puerto Rico

DAVID A. JENKINS, RUSSELL F. MIZELL, III, SKIP VAN BLOEM, STEFANIE WHITMIRE, LEYINSKA WISCOVITCH, CRYSTAL ZALESKI, AND RICARDO GOENAGA

Atomic and molecular adsorption on Au(111)

Submitted by Wilson Gonzalez-Espada on 11 July 2014 - 6:40pm

Atomic and molecular adsorption on Au(111)

Yohaselly Santiago-Rodríguez, Jeffrey A. Herron, María C. Curet-Arana, Manos Mavrikakis

FDA Warns About Stem Cell Claims

Submitted by Wilson Gonzalez-Espada on 6 July 2014 - 7:12pm

Stem cell therapies offer the potential to treat diseases or conditions for which few treatments exist.

Stem cells, sometimes called the body’s “master cells,” are the precursor cells that develop into blood, brain, bones and all of your organs. Their promise in medical treatments is that they have the potential to repair, restore, replace and regenerate cells that could then be used to treat many medical conditions and diseases.

Therapeutic aphaeresis: Experience in Puerto Rico

Submitted by Wilson Gonzalez-Espada on 6 July 2014 - 6:40pm

Therapeutic aphaeresis: Experience in Puerto Rico

Raúl H. Morales Borges, Gladys Colón Nieves, María Rodríguez Martínez, Rosa Vargas Ramos, Linda I. Pedraza Otero, Carmen Nieves Vargas, Glorimar Ortiz Pedraza, Jairo J. Morales Jiménez, Clinical Services, American Red Cross, Puerto Rico Region, United States

Two new genera of lickens discovered in Puerto Rico

Submitted by Wilson Gonzalez-Espada on 4 June 2014 - 6:12pm

Joel A. Mercado Díaz and his colleagues combined genetic and morphological techniques to identify two genera and twelve new species of lickens at El Yunque National Forest.

This article is available in Spanish.