Buscador noticias

18/05/2015 | Divulgación científica

Portrait and homage
They met more than thirty years ago in La Plata, when Denegri was studying for his doctorate at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata [National University of La Plata]. Later on, together with other colleagues, Denegri founded the Asociación Platense de Epistemología (APE) [Association for Epistemology from La Plata], and asked Bunge to be the...

14/05/2015 | Divulgación científica

Disposable bottles for sustainable houses
Returnable bottles are some of the most common waste that accumulates in cities and this situation is even worse if we consider the fact that it takes them 500 years to degrade, and that time increases if they are buried. In response to this problem, Rosana Gaggino, CONICET associate researcher at the Centro Experimental de la Vivienda...

13/05/2015 | Divulgación científica

The most complete ancient terror bird
South America was isolated from North America during a long period of time and Central America did not exist. At that time, in the Southern cone, there were not carnivorous placental mammals such as pumas or bears, therefore the so called Terror Birds were the main carnivores in these ecosystems. Federico Degrange – assistant researcher –...

08/05/2015 | Divulgación científica

Ñulac: a project with high nutritional and social value
The  Centro de Referencia para Lactobacilos (CERELA-CONICET) [Reference Centre for Lactobacilli] has participated in several social food programmes at provincial and national level. Since 2008, Yogurito, a yogurt enriched with probiotic that help to improve the nutrition of more than 200 thousand kids from the province of Tucumán, is distributed...

07/05/2015 | Divulgación científica

Red sorghum for gluten-free diets
In Argentina, coeliac disease affects one in a hundred people. Therefore, it is the most frequent chronic bowel disease in the country. This autoimmune disease is characterized by intolerance to gluten, a protein found in cereals such as wheat, oat, barley and rye (TACC in Spanish). This affection can manifest itself at any age, it is hereditary...

05/05/2015 | Divulgación científica

Scientists treat cognitive dysfunctions to improve school performance
Cognitive control functions or executive functions are essential abilities that intervene in the intellectual development and are indispensable for the proper development of individuals along their lives. Some primary school children have certain difficulties in those mental processes, which intervene in the reception, selection,...

29/04/2015 | Divulgación científica

Chilesaurio diegosuarezi, an evolutionary puzzle
A bizarre dinosaur of the Late Jurassic period – about 148 millions of years- was presented in Chile. The remains were found in 2004 in an archaeological site which seemed to contain several species, but finally palaeontologists discovered the find belonged to one specimen described as an “evolutionary mosaic”. The Chilesaurio...

24/04/2015 | Divulgación científica

New experimental models to treat oral cancer
The ideal therapy to treat cancer is the one that manages to destroy cancer cells without affecting healthy tissue. Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) is an alternative radiotherapy technique that has more advantages than the traditional ones. This was proved in different countries where scientists carried out clinical trials for the treatment...

24/04/2015 | Divulgación científica

Shaping nature
The animals and plants that are part of everyday life are the result of a domestication process that in some way changed the history of mankind. Scientists study when and why the process began. Hugo D. Yacobaccio, CONICET principal researcher at the Archaeology Institute of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires...

20/04/2015 | Noticias

Argentine President inaugurated new facilities at the PROIMI
In the city of San Miguel de Tucumán, through videoconferencing, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner inaugurated the Biotechnology Plant for Good Manufacturing Practice of the Pilot Plant of Industrial and Biological Processes (PROIMI) under the scope of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). The event was held at...