The destruction of habitat and incidental over-fishing are the two main threats for 37 species of sharks that have been identified in Puerto Rico.
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El módulo tiene como meta familiarizar al estudiante con estrategias y métodos utilizados para el análisis de experimentos conductuales y moleculares como “Western blots” e inmunohistoquímica con florescencia. El módulo describe el proceso de análisis de los datos cualitativos y cuantitativos del estudio. Un proceso de análisis de tres pasos será descrito en el módulo. Los pasos del proceso de análisis de los datos son:
Estos pasos pueden completarse en serie y en algunos casos de manera concurrente.
Objetivos de aprendizaje del módulo:
The destruction of habitat and incidental over-fishing are the two main threats for 37 species of sharks that have been identified in Puerto Rico.
For the full article, please refer to the Spanish version of this site.
The Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust (PRSTRT) announced the establishment of the Vector Control Unit of Puerto Rico after receiving official announcement of the Center for Diseases Control & Prevention (CDC) for a collaborative agreement for this purpose. Such collaborative agreement will give the Trust a grant to create, manage and operate this unit.
According to the US Federal Fish and Wildlife Service there are 14 endangered species of flora and fauna in Puerto Rico.
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Ginebra - The World Health Organization (WHO) warned today that the vaccine against Zika virus might arrive to late to have a real impact on the current epidemic going on in Latin America.
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This article describes the recent article about dengue genetics published in Science by Dr. Mariano García Blanco and his colleagues at Duke University.
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The Science article could be found at: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2015/07/01/science.aab3369.abstract
A shark that has been monitored was recently track swimming in the south of Puerto Rico. Researchers at Nova Southeastern University’s Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI) announced that “St. Mary’s”, shark's name, was escaping the cold temperatures and was swimming in the Caribbean waters.