Aunque tiene mala fama, la bacteria ‘Escherichia coli’ es una vieja amiga de la ciencia. Sin su contribución no se habrían hecho hallazgos decisivos en el campo de la genética o las vacunas.
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The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) was founded on September 21st, 1551 under the name Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico. It is the biggest and most important university in Mexico and Ibero-America. The fundamental aim of the UNAM is to serve both the country and humanity, train professionals, organize and carry out research, mainly on national problems and conditions, and offer cultural benefits in the broadest sense possible.
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El cáncer nos “invade” y hay una “guerra” en marcha contra las bacterias mutirresistentes. Las metáforas son útiles para visualizar conceptos complejos, pero a veces pueden transmitir ideas xenófobas o influir negativamente en la actitud del paciente.
Many people think their destiny is written on the stars. It is not.
Hay una razón por la que millones de personas en el mundo creen que su destino está escrito en las estrellas. Esta es la razón.
Climate change is changing wave patterns and strength. Bigger waves combined with sea level rise will hit coasts hard – but only in some countries.
Después de haber formado una familia y de que el laboratorio en el que trabajaba se quedara sin fondos, Karikó, galardonada con el Premio Nobel de Fisiología y Medicina 2023, decidió mudarse a Estados Unidos en los años 80 para perseguir su sueño.
COVID-19 cases in Mexico are approaching the highest levels seen during the second wave in late January 2021, with about 22,000 new infections a day. A slow vaccine rollout is stunting progress.
New research looked at wave conditions over the past 40 years, and found wave power has increased since at least the 1980s, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere.
El asesino Lee Harvey Oswald viajó a la Ciudad de México antes de la muerte de JFK. Una teoría de conspiración dice que estuvo en contacto con mexicanos peligrosos del lado izquierdo de la Guerra Fría
In 1967 a Mexican reporter told the CIA he had met Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico City just before the JFK assassination. New research and recently declassified intelligence pokes a hole in his story.
Un reciente estudio describe los pasos para lograr paisajes respetuosos con la naturaleza que promuevan al mismo tiempo el bienestar humano.
Not all earthquakes are made equal. A study on the Sept. 2017 quake that killed 300 in Mexico City found that both its location and cause were unusual.
El sismo que mato a 300 personas en la Ciudad de Mexico en septiembre 2017 fue muy inusual por su ubicación y causa, según sismólogos.
Lynn Margulis (1938-2011) was a courageous scholar whose remarkable work on the role of symbiosis in evolution stands as a magisterial contribution of science.
The Tehuantepec gap in southeastern Mexico, where this month’s massive earthquake originated, was long thought to be ‘aseismic.’ On September 7, scientists learned otherwise.
Parents’ DNA try to manipulate one another in a bid to shape junior in their mould.
Trump’s revamped old policy could have a paradoxical effect on Cuba, seriously damaging the country’s economy while actually galvanising its political system.
Can Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexican politics’ long-time left-wing rabble rouser, finally win the presidency?
Despite hard work by both governments to overcome mistrust, more is needed to build mutual understanding between Americans and Mexicans. Educational partnerships may hold the answer.
Today’s ugly politics are not a backlash against global capitalism, they’re an open embrace of the racism and greed that has always underpinned so-called global governance.
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Head of Academic Unit, Health Public and Population Research Center, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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Professor, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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Professor, Center for Research on North America, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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Director of the Ecology Institute, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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Professor of Narrative Analysis, School of Higher Studies, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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Researcher, Department of Volcanology, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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Researcher, Geophysics Institute, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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Research fellow, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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Assistant Professor, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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Associate professor, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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Professor, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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Research Professor, Institute of Engineering, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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Full Researcher specialized in ecology of fragmented landscapes at the Institute for Ecosystem and Sustainability Research, UNAM Mexico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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Professor, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
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Maestro en Ciencias Bioquímicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
