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INSTITUTE OF LIFE SCIENCES
No. 131 - November 2024
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On Monday, 8 October, the Stockholm-based Karolinska Institutet announced the award of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to American researchers Victor Ambros (b. 1953), professor of Natural Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and Gary Ruvkun (b. 1952), principal investigator and professor of genetics at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. The achievement of these geneticists was …
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A recent article published in Cell presents the case of a woman with type 1 diabetes who, after receiving a transplant of reprogrammed induced pluripotent stem cells, has managed to produce her own insulin. The operation, performed in June 2023, consisted of injecting 1.5 million pancreatic islets derived from her own stem cells from adult tissues into her abdominal muscles. …
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Gene editing is far from being a safe technique today, because not all modifications that occur in the genome after its application are desired, leading to genetic changes with unpredictable consequences. Furthermore, due to the limited knowledge of how our genome works, it is not possible to predict all the effects derived from these modifications, nor the interactions that may …
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The prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) continues to increase dramatically in our country. The most common are gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis. As we have previously reported, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 450 million new cases of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are diagnosed worldwide each year. Its increase has been alarming in recent years, with an …
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The Declaration of Helsinki is a set of ethical principles developed by the World Medical Association (WMA) to guide medical research involving human participants. It was first adopted in 1964 and has been revised several times since then. These principles state that the health and rights of patients must be the highest priority in any medical research. They also emphasize …
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