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INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES
No. 132- December 2024
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This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was aimed at recognizing the great strides made in artificial intelligence (AI), honoring two of its most distinguished creators. Their merits are highlighted in the official information released by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: “This year’s two Nobel Laureates in Physics have used tools from physics to …
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Nature has published the results of a phase 1 clinical trial, conducted by researchers at Stanford University, which shows significant improvements in patients with an aggressive type of brain cancer with high mortality, including one case of complete remission. Diffuse midline gliomas, such as diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), are tumors affecting the central nervous system that are resistant to …
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Complications associated with abortions affect not only the embryo or fetus, which is terminated, but also its mother. As several studies have shown, they significantly increase the risk of suffering from mental disorders such as anxiety, depression, alcoholism or drug use. A study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine analyzes the efficacy and safety of medical abortion, …
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The company 23andMe, which is currently in bankruptcy, is in the business of performing DNA tests to determine the genetic data of its customers' ancestors. These tests are very simple to use. For about €50, the company mails its customers a kit with which they take a saliva sample, put it in a tube and send it back to 23amdMe …
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Texas is moving forward with a bill that seeks to further restrict access to abortion pills in the state. This month, Republican Texas state Representative Pat Curry introduced a proposal to classify mifepristone and misoprostol as controlled substances. These are two drugs used to abort during the first months of pregnancy. This measure would allow greater control over their use …
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