By Remberto Hurtado, Leonardo Putaré, El Deber: From Egg to Laboratory: Students Succeed in Extracting Homemade Hyaluronic Acid Hyaluronic acid with a university seal. Biochemistry students found a way to obtain hyaluronic acid from the eggshell membrane. Their proposal, with medical, cosmetic, and sustainable applications, began as a homemade practice. A common household waste became…
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Toad-headed turtle lays eggs in captivity | Tortuga cabeza de sapo desova en cautiverio
By ANA, Erbol: Toad-headed turtle lays eggs in captivity: its reproductive cycle will be studied ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS AGENCY On a day of heavy rain in the city of Trinidad, a toad-headed turtle was found and rescued after being severely injured, with a piece of its shell missing. After undergoing successful surgery and while in the…
Scientists are producing data without sharing it with people who actually need it
All scientists want their research to have impact. But how often is that impact realized? A recent case study in Madidi National Park, Bolivia sought to put numbers to actual rates of knowledge dissemination and implementation. This study, published by Anne Toomey, assistant professor at Pace University, María Eugenia Copa Alvaro from the Colección Boliviana de Fauna in Bolivia,…
Chacaltaya contributed to man’s trip to the moon
ANF reports in Opinion: A space observatory from that mountain would have made Bolivia participate in the Apollo 11 mission, according to scientific articles and the director of the planetarium. The observations of “clouds of dust” of the lunar orbit that were made from the Chacaltaya mountain were part of the preliminary studies of space…
UMSA professor wins award in Spain: Karina Medinaceli Díaz
Pagina Siete gives us great news! UMSA professor wins award in Spain Karina Medinaceli Díaz, Professor of Law at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, obtained the Ibero-American Data Protection Prize for her PhD thesis at the Pontifical University of Salamanca, Spain. The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) has given the result of the 2016…
Millionaires of El Alto and their Urban Change
Pagina Siete reports: CONFERENCE: Millionaires of El Alto and their Urban Change The new millionaires of El Alto, the chola bourgeoisie and their movements, both social and physical, set in the so-called global south, is the theme of the conference that will provide today [07/27/2016] Kate Maclean, Professor of Social Geography at Birkbeck College, University…
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