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UPR investigates: RNA modifications to cure disease

Submitted on 16 January 2016 - 2:11pm

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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

Submitted on 16 January 2016 - 1:44pm

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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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Medical Sciences and Yale Collaborate to Develop Puertorrican Scientists

Submitted on 16 January 2016 - 1:04pm

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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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University of Puerto Rico investigates: How to produce Omega 3 in the laboratory

Submitted on 18 December 2015 - 3:09pm

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According to Dr. Abel Baerga, Professor at the Medical Sciences Campus from the University of Puerto Rico, human beings have been overfishing the oceans leading to a decrease in the principal source of Omega 3, a bacteria that resides inside those fish. For this reason, his laboratory investigates the Biosynthesis of polyunsaturated fatty acids in marine bacteria, with the purpose of reproducing the compound in a different bacteria with the capacity to be grown in the lab.

 

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Students present innovative pharmacy business plans

Submitted on 16 December 2015 - 11:04pm

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A group of 42 students from the University of Puerto Rico at Medical Sciences Campus (School of Pharmacy) presented innovative pharmacy business plans to integrate the patients' health as the principal focus. 

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Higher risk of chikungunya contagion in municipalities like San Juan

Submitted on 16 December 2015 - 12:38pm

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A research conducted at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey found that the mosquitos spreading the Chikungunya virus do not survive in colder temperatures, therefore places like San Juan and Guayama are at higher risk for spreading the virus.

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First cohort of students at the IAARP received certificates

Submitted on 7 December 2015 - 4:46pm

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The first cohort of 23 students at the Institute of Aeronautics and aerospatioal of Puerto Rico (IAAPR), under the University of Puerto Rico at Aguadilla (UPR-Aguadilla), recieved the certification “Base Aircraft Overhaul Program” (CAT-A) in collaboration with Lufthansa Technik.

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Student at UPRM won first place at the North American Power Symposium

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Mónica I. Mercado Oliveras, student at the Electrical Engineering Department, at the Univerity of Puerto Rico Mayagüez (RUM), won first place for her poster presentation at the North American Power Symposium (NAPS) held at the University of North Carolina.

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Neuroscientist shines at regional conference

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Marla Rivera-Oliver, a graduate student at the Institute of Neurobiology of the University of Puerto Rico, was selected to present her research in the oral Neuroscience session at the Southeast Regional IDeA conference in Biloxi, MS (Nov 11-13, 2015). Marla’s presentation, "The Modulatory Effects of Caffeine on the Intrinsic Properties of Spinal Lateral Motoneurons", a collaboration with Yocasta Alvarez-Bagnarol and her research mentor Dr. Manuel Diaz-Rios, received a commemorative certificate and a $500 award. She was the only neuroscience graduate student to be selected for an oral presentation. 

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Scientists will use treatments to prevent Alzheimer's disease

Submitted on 3 December 2015 - 7:06pm

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Scientists at the University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus will use 3 different treatments to prevent Alzheimer's disease.

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