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INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES
No. 115 - April 2023
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Peter Singer has been awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Humanities and Social Sciences for "innovative academic contributions in the spheres of rationality and the moral domain" as announced by its sponsors. Philosopher at Princeton University and advocate for "animal liberation", which he developed in his work of the same title, he is a clear exponent of …
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Norway has gone from having 4 requests a year from people who wanted to undergo gender transition treatment, between 1975 and 1990, to having between 400 and 600 patients a year, between the years 2018-2021. The greatest growth in demand has occurred among adolescents and young adults who, being women, identify with the male sex. These striking data have been …
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Quantifying creativity in research work Society has accepted that revolutionary scientific advances and innovation are the engine of prosperity and, as a result, research spending has grown over the years. In the United States, funding for research increased more than tenfold (excluding inflation) in the period from 1955 to 2020. And, according to UNESCO records, over the past few years, …
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From the color of our eyes to our odds of developing cancer, we are all shaped by the genetic legacy of our ancestors. But a new study in mice provides the clearest evidence yet that acquired traits can be passed down from one generation to the next in mammals without DNA changes, challenging centuries of evolutionary dogma and raising fresh …
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Nature Communications has just published the findings of a study coordinated by Jochen Buck of Weill Cornell Medicine (United States), which claims that inhibitors of an enzyme called soluble adenylyl cyclase (sAC) can reduce sperm motility in mice and humans. sAC is an enzyme that is essential for activating the sperm’s ability to move and mature, so that they can travel through the female reproductive tract …
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A woman with sickle cell anemia has been cured of this genetic disease through a therapy based on the CRISPR gene editing tool, as explained in a speech at the III International Summit on Human Genome Editing, held in London between 6th and 8th of March. The American patient Victoria Gray, had been suffering all her life from the complications …
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On February 16, in response to Opinion 139 of the French National Consultative Committee on Ethics, thirteen organizations representing 800,000 French health workers published the document “Can causing death be considered care?”. In it, health workers (doctors, nurses, auxiliary nurses) denounce the current situation in France in reference to euthanasia. "In a moment in which the French health system is …
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Mark Gordon, Wyoming state governor, has signed into law a bill banning the prescription and use of abortion pills. Wyoming is the first state to specifically ban the sale of these pills, although other states have policies that almost completely ban abortion, including abortion pills as well. The provision makes it illegal to "prescribe, dispense, distribute, sell or use any …
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