BACTERIAL GENOMIC TRANSPLANTS
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Drawing, taken from NYT.Labels: genomic transplants, stem cells
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Drawing, taken from NYT.Labels: genomic transplants, stem cells
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Nadie sabe que ocurrió en Abril, pero a fines de Mayo lucia asi: una gigantesca fosa sin agua, de 30 metros de profundidad, con témpanos de hielo varados en el fondo seco de un gran cráter. El fondo, exhibia además 3 enormes grietas. Un caudaloso río (40 metros de ancho y 6-7 km de largo), alimentado por glaciares norteños (Bernardo y Lautaro), que desembocaba en el lago tambien desapareció, dejando como rastro apenas un simple riachuelo, dijo Juan José Romero Jefe del servicio forestal chileno (CONAF)
Ahora, la tarea de los geólogos es determinar : I) si la enorme masa de agua se filtró por hendiduras subterráneas de la fosa, generadas por terremotos previos. Versión apoyada por la presencia de abundante ceniza volcánica proveniente de erupciones históricas y recientes del Volcán Lautaro o: II) si por el contrario, glaciares cercanos, derretidos, vertidos en el lago (por efecto de cambios climáticos condicionados por el calentamiento global), elevaron los niveles del agua del lago, incrementando la presión, rompiendo diques naturales de hielo, rocas o combinaciones de ambos, fluyendo el agua hacia el océano pacifico. Esta teoria es la más aceptable, para nosotros. Según el glaciólogo chileno Cedomir Marangunic y Frank Wilhelms del Alfred-Wegener-Institut de Oceanografia Polar de Bremerhaven “este fenómeno, no es excepcional…y, si las aguas no desembocan en el océano, terminan integrándose al hielo”. En la comunidad Las Salinas/Puno/ Perú (4000 msnm), se observa cada cierto tiempo, la desaparición de lagos enteros. La diferencia es que en estos casos los tempanos remanentes estan constituidos por sal, cuyos efectos sobre el hielo son harto conocidos. Aunque en el caso del lago chileno, se trata de agua glacial, sugerimos estudiar la composición química de los tempanos remanentes, a la brevedad.
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a collaborative study of 80 world organizations, in charge of providing the sequences of DNA, of all the species. At the moment they work the sequence of 1% of human genome, integrating 80 different types of experiments (600 million data). Ewan Birney, of the Molecular European Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute, Boss of the Project says: "We know the letters of the genoma, but not the understanding."Labels: Encode, human genome
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In today's dawn, a precise space operation (spacewalks, mechanical precision, coordination with earth controls), allowed astronauts of International Space Station (ISS), to deploy 2 new solar antennas that will convert solar energy in electric. Contemplating the total span of the extended solar wings (240 feet and 2,400 pounds of weight), we imagined the potential installation of hundred of orbiting mirrors in the terrestrial atmospheric space (344 km above Earth), the same ones that reflecting the solar light permanently, would illuminate the Earth, by day and at night. A dream, for the time being. According to James Reilly, focused human spacewalks, allowed the unfurled of solar wings little by little (to avoid that they stick among them).
The new coupled wings replaces another deteriorated old couple. The second mission to be carried out in the next days consists on installing thermal protectors blankets near the damaged (10 cm), tail of the shuttle (Atlantis/NASA), in order to protect the ferry against superficial rips during its reentry in the terrestrial atmosphere. 3 additional trips wait to the shuttle, this year.Labels: Atlantis shuttle, ISS, solar wings

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Top/Center : Isabelle, before the transplant.
She goes well and her process of rehabilitation exceeds all the expectations. So, said the well known french surgeon Bernard Devauchelle in a TV interview in Rostock/Germany during the Annual Congress of the German Society of Maxillo-Facial Surgery. The face of Isabelle, who now keeps great similarity with the original, is able to express emotions in agreement with her face gestures.
Isabelle :Now (Pictures taken from Die Welt online).
Isabelle takes a normal life and can contemplate herself without problems in the mirror. With the exception of some injections of Botox, to restore the labial symmetry, Isabelle has not needed but face operations. He receives medication antirejection of the transplant (for her entire life).
Nueva (maravillosa), cara.
Labels: botox, face partial transplantation, maxillo.facial surgery