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Picture of the Puerto Rican reality

Submitted on 4 December 2006 - 1:46pm

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The first Environmental Atlas of Puerto Rico is a thematic atlas that integrates with maps, texts, tables and graphics the cause and effect relationship between human activities and the environment in Puerto Rico. Some interesting facts from the book, by Tania del Mar López Marrero and Nancy Villanueva: - The population growth in Puerto Rico in the last 50 years has been of 72%. - In 2000, it was determined that there is an average of two cars per person in the Island. In some municipalities, like Guaynabo, there is a car per person. - In Puerto Rico a square kilometer has an average of 429 people, 3.4 km of roads and 267 cars and in them are sustained an average of 1,139 farm animals. - 98% of the energy sources used in the Island come from non-renewable sources (petroleum, coal and gas) and the dependence on petroleum is high (80%). - Between 1977 and 2001, the percentage of land with high agricultural development potential used for construction was more than double than in land with lesser agricultural potential. - In 2000 approximately 14,900 thousand of tons of solid waste were generated.

E. coli celebrity among scientists

Submitted on 3 December 2006 - 8:33pm

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This is the second of a series of articles published by CienciaPR in collaboration with El Nuevo Dia, about organisms used as experimental models in biomedical sciences.

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Key to the mysteries of the human being

Submitted on 3 December 2006 - 8:28pm

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This is the first of a series of articles published by CienciaPR in collaboration with El Nuevo Dia, about organisms used as experimental models in biomedical sciences.

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Cuban Biotechnology Revolution

Submitted on 2 December 2006 - 9:47pm

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Cuba is one of the few developing countries that has been able to turn its science and technology advancements into a productive area that generates social benefits and more recently commercial benefits from exporting. This Caribbean country has been doing research to create vaccines against AIDS and certain types of cancer and they have already generated the only vaccine against meningitis B, as well as interferon’s to fight viral infections. This Cuban biotechnology revolution happened thanks to a series of state investments and research with a practical focus and the foundation of several research centers, university reforms and its natural sciences programs and more importantly, sending Cuban scientists abroad.

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