The magazine UMH Sapiens , a popular science publication of the Miguel Hernández University , dedicates its 43rd issue to the SATDI ( Technical Support Service for the Development of Scientific Equipment) in its article “When Science Breaks Down.” The report, written by journalist Diego de la Encina Rodríguez [...]
Juana RP, the woman who donated more than 800,000 euros to the CSIC. Image: eldiario.es Juana RP, an 87-year-old woman who lived a very modest life in the Fuente del Berro neighborhood of Madrid, surprised everyone by bequeathing almost €825,000 to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in her will. Ninety percent of her money was [...]
A research group from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) has unveiled a microrobot capable of delivering medication directly to highly specific areas of the body with astonishing precision: for example, it could reach the blood clot causing a stroke. The study, published in the journal Science, facilitates the design of less invasive and more efficient treatments than [...]
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A team of researchers from the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) has achieved a revolutionary advance in the field of visual neuroprostheses: they have implanted an array of 100 microelectrodes in the visual cortex of two people who had lost their sight. This device—so compact that it fits in a space of just 4 [...]
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A research team from the Roslin Institute at the University of Edinburgh has developed, through genetic editing, a line of pigs capable of resisting classical swine fever (CSF), a highly contagious viral disease that severely affects pig farming. The key to this innovation lies in modifying the gene that encodes the DNAJC14 protein, which the virus [...]
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Microscopic image of the brain of a mouse treated with the new nanoparticle-based therapy | IBEC A scientific team co-led from Spain by the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) and the Western China Hospital of Sichuan University (WCHSU), have achieved promising progress against Alzheimer’s in animal models. The new therapy uses nanoparticles that actively act [...]
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