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INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES
No. 107 - July 2022
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Lia Thomas continues to have an advantage over her rivals, even though she takes testosterone suppressants. The debate between transsexuality and sport continues According to the doctors, although the transsexual swimmer is taking medication to reduce her testosterone levels, she still has a clear competitive advantage over the swimmers she competes against. Lia is achieving overwhelming victories in the swimming …
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Study suggests that having children impairs the cognitive health of parents On 22 May, Spanish newspaper Levante reported a study conducted by Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Paris-Dauphine University. The study, published in the scientific journal Demography, claims that having three or more children hastens the cognitive decline of parents — both men and women — by …
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Replacing organs and tissues on demand could save or improve millions of lives each year around the world and create public health benefits. According to the Eurotransplant website, in 2021 there were more than 14,000 people on the waiting list for organs. Undoubtedly, transplantation is the definitive solution for patients with chronic and terminal organ failure. Fifty years is the …
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Japanese researchers have published an article in the prestigious journal "Nature Human Behaviour" studying the behavior of eight-month-old babies in the face of aggressive behavior. The main objective of the study was to investigate whether in early childhood moral behavior can be established in the babies analyzed by evaluating their ability to show rejection of aggressive attitudes towards third parties …
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The ruling in the case Roe v. Wade of 1973 issued by the Supreme Court of the USA, considered abortion as a protected right without any legislation, and implied the imposition of abortion on request and without alleging cause in all states. Since then, more than 65 million abortions have been performed. The sentence was based on two serious errors: …
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According to a study by the Association of Accredited Clinics for the Interruption of Pregnancy (ACAI), 85% of women who abort prefer to have a surgical abortion in abortion clinics and the remaining 15% opt for pharmacological abortions by taking abortion pills. Both types of abortion can produce complications. In the case of surgical abortion, these could be endometriosis, infections, perforation …
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Gender ideology and its authoritarian politics continue to provoke a social debate and the reaction of some US states, which are decisively positioning themselves to stop the path marked out by the defenders of this ideology. Among them, it is worth mentioning that of Montana, which proclaims that it will only register biological sex in birth certificates, not "gender", defined …
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After the recent ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States, which establishes that abortion is not a constitutional right, there have been numerous reactions aimed both at limiting access to abortion and at favoring it, depending on the state in question. At least 22 states already have laws aimed at restricting abortion, of which 13 had legal provisions …
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