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Sistema CRISPR/Cas9 nativo. Crédito: Visual Science

30 March 2018

CRISPR, the Genetic Revolution of the 21st Century

Who would have imagined that the new genetic revolution of the 21st century would be born in a pond designed to harvest salt from seawater? In the salt flats of Santa Pola (Spain), the [...]

Marie Curie en su laboratorio. Fuente: Wikimedia

07 November 2017

The Great Invention of Marie Curie

When in 1995 the remains of the French-Polish scientist Marie Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) were exhumed from the Sceaux cemetery to be transferred to the Pantheon in Paris, [...]

07 August 2017

The Impact of Industry 4.0 on Assisted Reproduction

At one time it seemed that highly-trained scientists who also required significant hands-on skill would be safe from robotization. But now these professions are also coming under threat [...]

27 March 2017

We Can Have a Positive Impact on Aging

Ageing is an inevitable and integral part of everyone’s lifecycle, together with birth, childhood, adolescence and adulthood. However, it does not always begin at the same time for everyone. [...]

Tackling Climate Change Through Human Engineering

Science,Biomedicine,Environment,Climate Change

Human-induced climate change is one of the biggest problems that we face today. Unfortunately, existing solutions such as behavioral and market solutions appear to be insufficient to mitigate [...]

Undoing Aging with Molecular and Cellular Damage Repair

Science,Biomedicine

Since the dawn of medicine, aging has been doctors’ foremost challenge. Three unsuccessful approaches to conquering it have failed: treating components of age-related ill health as curable [...]

24 June 2016

Monster’s Fair: The Rarest Gems of the Animal World

Today, there is no doubt that great efforts are being made in terms of the conservation of endangered species. But this has not been conducted equally: in recent years, several experts [...]

12 April 2016

Assisted Reproduction and the 4.0 Industry

Despite the incredible breakthroughs in assisted reproduction and in the genetic technology applied to it, the embryologist profession is still very artisanal. However, the fourth industrial [...]

08 February 2016

CRISPR-CAS: more than just “scissors”

The Princess of Asturias Award from the past year has been awarded to two researchers, E. Charpentier and J. Doudna, for their work around the biotechnology technique called CRISPR-CAS, [...]

29 January 2016

Tissues from the Lab

Making human organs and tissues in the laboratory that work identically to the originals is not some fantasy from the creator of Frankenstein. In fact, an artificial contractile muscle [...]

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