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Puertorrican Innovation Competes in World Energy Contest

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The Puertorricans; Guifre Tort, Ernesto Cruz and Antonio Roig, creators of the proyect Traffic Energy Bar System (TEBS), are in Paris, France, ready to compete in the Decarbon Athon, a contest dedicated to finding solutions to decrease carbon emissions on the planet. 

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Conservation Efforts for the Puerto Rican Mountain Coqui

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Conservation Efforts for the Puerto Rican Mountain Coqui (Anura: Eleutherodactylidae: Eleutherodactylus portoricensis Schmidt, 1927): Reproductive Biology in Captivity

Neftalí Ríos-López, Eliacim Agosto-Torres, Rayza M. Hernández-Muñíz, Coralys Vicéns-López, Ashley Bernardi-Salinas, Waleska N. Tirado-Casillas, Yvonne M. Flores-Rodríguez

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CDC issues warning due to Zika virus

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Marga Parés Arroyo

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) issued a warning about traveling to 14 countries due to the Zika virus.

 

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UPR investigates: RNA modifications to cure disease

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In the Institute for Neurobiology in San Juan, an investigator and his students from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) are searching for the way to modify human molecules to eliminate genetic mutations and create new therapies for diseases. 
 
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UPR Professor is reelected to the board of the American Chemical Society

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Dr. Ingrid Montes, Chemistry Professor from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), Rio Piedras Campus, was reelected as the General Director of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Chemistry (ACS). 

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Workshops to prepare coastal communities in the event of hurricanes

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MICHELLE ESTADES
Workshops are free of cost and will be offered in San Juan and Cabo Rojo.
 
The Sea Grant program from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, invites the university community and residents that live on the coast to participate in the workshop: HURRIPLAN: Design for the development of resilient coastal communities. 
 

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Medical Sciences and Yale Collaborate to Develop Puertorrican Scientists

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With the purpose of training the next generation of scientists from Puerto Rico and providing more tools and resources for the development of research proyects that will create the neccesary conditions to avoid the escape of talent from the Island, the Puerto Rico Clinical & Translational Research Consortium (PRCTRC), adscribed to the Medical Sciences Campus (RCM) of the University of Puerto Rico (UPR), started a collabortion with the Yale Clinical Center for Investigations (YCCI) of the University of Yale.

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ZIka virus, what we know and what we don't

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Daniel Romero-Álvarez
Three days ago two patients were discovered positive with the Zika virus, also called Zika fever. It is important to point out that these are imported cases, meaining that the patients were infected in another country but were diagnosed here. 
 
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2016 Semi-Annual Convention: Infectious Diseases and Climate Change

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Special Issue: Cayo Santiago: 75 Years of Leadership in Translational Research

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