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INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES
No. 109 - October 2022
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Synthetic embryoids. Could they be the solution to the shortage of organs for transplantation?
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The suffix oid is Greek in origin, and may be used to form adjectives or nouns from other adjectives or nouns to mean “having the form or resemblance of”. Hence, we have the term embryoid. At the beginning of August, a group of scientists headed by Jacob H. Hanna of the Weizmann Institute in Israel published a not-yet-completed study in …
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Health care for people with intellectual disabilities
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No matter how severe their disability is, people with intellectual disabilities have the same status as people who do not have intellectual disabilities and who need support to live a full life. Therefore, the recognition of the person with intellectual disability is an essential condition to make the dignity of that person a reality. To contextualize this issue, I would …
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Global failure in managing the COVID-19 pandemic
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On September 14, The Lancet published an article defining the global response to COVID-19 as "a massive global failure at multiple levels". Faced with this publication, the WHO has responded by stating that the report presents "omissions and misinterpretations". The article states that, according to estimated data on infections and deaths by the Institute for Health Metrics and Health Evaluation …
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The male contraceptive pill is ready for human trials
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The male contraceptive pill is not hormonal and drastically reduces spermatogenesis. A non-hormonal male contraceptive with 99% efficacy and no side effects has been discovered after research carried out on mice. A team of researchers from the Gunda Georg Laboratory at the University of Minnesota presented these results at the American Chemical Society. Since 1960, when the female contraceptive …
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The WHO states that there are more than two sexes
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The World Health Organization (WHO) intends to update its manual "Gender mainstreaming for health managers: a practical approach" stating "that sex is not limited to male or female". From the WHO they explain that they are modernizing their manual, published in 2011 and that they are going to update it with "new scientific evidence and conceptual progress on gender, health …
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When memory is lost, but not affection
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Recently, Jacinto Bátiz, director of the Institute for Better Care of the San Juan de Dios Hospital in Santurce (Vizcaya) and head of the SEMG Bioethics Group, has published an article that alludes to the importance of the family-caregiver of those with Alzheimer's disease. Jacinto Bátiz affirms “this disease gradually destroys the memory of the person who suffers from it, …
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A repentant transgender teenager denounces the lack of information before her gender transition
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Chloe Cole is an 18-year-old transgender teenager who underwent a gender transition and double mastectomy between the ages of 12 and 16, and now, after regretting her decision, she leads the defense of children and families that they are going through the same process to protect them from the existing misinformation about the irreversible consequences that it entails, both physically …
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