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Infotech looking to expand services

Submitted on 18 October 2007 - 2:06pm

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Infotech Aerospace Services, Inc., a joint company of Pratt & Whitney and Infotech Enterprises, started 4 years ago as a pilot project of 18 people. Today, it has 500 employees, and the same enthusiasm as 4 years ago, which has been key in their success. It is precisely the technical and professional preparation and the dedication of its employees the reason that the company is ready for its next big step: offer its engineering, information technology and supply chain knowledge to clients outside Puerto Rico.

Coffee berry borer threatens Puerto Rico's coffee industry

Submitted on 13 October 2007 - 6:57pm

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The coffee berry borer (Hypothenemus hampei) is an insect that feeds on coffee, the only plant where there is evidence that it can complete its life cycle. This insect eats and lives in the coffee berries. Although this plague affects coffee crops around the world, Puerto Rico had been able to dodge the ball until recently. It is known that worldwide the plague has been controlled successfully using integrated control plans together with biological control.

UPR in the Solar Decathlon

Submitted on 9 October 2007 - 9:57pm

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The University of Puerto Rico starts this week –for the third time- its participation in the Solar Decathlon, a competition between 20 institutions that assure they have built the best house powered with solar energy

Medicines from the seas

Submitted on 9 October 2007 - 9:48pm

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The cure for cancer, HIV and other contagious diseases caused by virus and bacteria wait to be discovered in the depths of the sea. In the last thirty years, over 450 medicinal products derived from tropical marine organisms like sponges, coral and other invertebrates have been discovered.

Ecology Inc.

Submitted on 9 October 2007 - 9:43pm

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Puerto Rico has started living the first steps towards creating its own industry for the main biofuel in the world: ethanol. Ethanol is an alcohol that can be produced through the fermentation of the juices of certain crops, like sugar cane, corn, and wheat, and can be used as fuel for cars in its pure form or -more commonly, in a 10% to 30% mix with gasoline- gasohol, to reduce the consumption of petroleum-derived fuels, and generate a mix that is more eco-friendly.

Afflictions start in the mouth

Submitted on 9 October 2007 - 9:31pm

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It is believed that the state of your mouth reflects your overall health and well-being. The School of Dentistry of the Medical Sciences Campus of the University of Puerto Rico and Dr. Kaumudi Joshipura, a Harvard oral epidemiologist –and the only one in Puerto Rico- studies how oral health problems cause predispositions to suffer other diseases.

Alert due to brain-eating amoeba

Submitted on 7 October 2007 - 9:52pm

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Although there is a remote possibility that Puerto Rico will register cases related to an amoeba that feeds on brain tissue, the State’s epidemiologist, Enid García Rivera, exhorted health professionals to be aware of the situation and be careful with diagnoses. The microorganism, know as Naegleria fowleri, has caused six deaths so far in the United States, in Florida, Texas and Arizona. Between 1995 and 2004 it caused 23 deaths in the US.

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