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04/03/2015 | Divulgación científica

Small molecules, great advances
In 2007, the team coordinated by Eduardo Arzt, CONICET senior researcher and professor at the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires, identified for the first time the genetic code for RSUME protein and discovered that one of the roles of this molecule is to modify proteins to assign new roles, for instance the...

04/03/2015 | Divulgación científica

Pequeñas moléculas, grandes avances
En 2007 el grupo coordinado por Eduardo Arzt, investigador superior del CONICET y Profesor Titular de la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales de la UBA, identificó por primera vez al gen que codifica para la proteína RSUME y descubrieron que uno de los roles de esta molécula es modificar proteínas para darles nuevas funciones, como por...

04/03/2015 | Divulgación científica

La educación bilingüe-bicultural para personas sordas: un proyecto de inclusión social
Por María Ignacia Massone* El término hipoacusia deriva del discurso médico y hace referencia a una pérdida auditiva que puede tener distinta intensidad, y, en consecuencia, a la categorización de las personas que la padecen como discapacitados a ser reeducados. Sin embargo, a partir de la década de los ‘60 en el mundo y de los ‘80 en...

26/02/2015 | Divulgación científica

Vaccination as a collective act
By Romina Libster* Vaccines are some of the great successes in public health internationally. They not only prevent diseases but also protect us from them and can prevent serious disabilities. A long time ago, when they did not exist, millions of people around the world died from diseases such as the smallpox, polio, measles, whooping cough,...

25/02/2015 | Noticias

“We want to encourage high school students to be scientists”
Biologist Luis Cappozzo had the chance to change the lab for the TV and he did it as he is used to doing it: as an experiment. In 2013 the researcher was called to be in charge of the scientific contents of Área 23, a television miniseries produced by Tecnópolis TV, broadcasted on the TV Pública and starred by Carolina Peleritti. The story is...

24/02/2015 | Noticias

Marcelo Isasi: la apasionante tarea de armar esqueletos de dinosaurios
En el mundo científico se acostumbra a que los investigadores publiquen papers académicos, participen de congresos y salgan en los medios difundiendo sus descubrimientos. Pero hay un detalle de su tarea que pocas veces es tenido en cuenta: detrás de todo investigador hay una o varias personas que lo asisten y le brindan apoyo calificado para...

24/02/2015 | Divulgación científica

Process systems engineering: planning to optimize
Broadly speaking, a process is a group of linked activities that add value to a supply. Process systems engineering focuses on the development and solution of mathematical models to optimize the performance of the processes. Alberto Bandoni, CONICET principal researcher at the Planta Piloto de Ingeniería Química (PLAPIQUI, CONICET-UNS) and...

26/01/2015 | Divulgación científica

“Family farming includes different players with different logics of production”
Raúl Paz, CONICET independent researcher, focuses his studies, along with Ramiro Rodríguez Sperat, assistant researcher of the Council, on family farming and its different logics and perspectives. Both scientists work at the Institute of Studies for Development (INDES, Instituto de Estudios para el Desarrollo) of the Faculty of Humanities,...

26/01/2015 | Divulgación científica

The CONICET and the Ministry of Interior and Transport will work on the Administration of Environment
The president of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Dr. Roberto Salvarezza, and the secretary of Municipal Affairs of the Ministry of Interior and Transportation, Ignacio Lamothe, signed a Framework Agreement with the Association of Economic Housing (AVE, Asociación de Vivienda Económica) to conduct the Support...

19/01/2015 | Noticias

The CONICET and FLACSO are going to fund research projects on gender
In order to establish a regulatory framework, identify, administer and jointly finance Proyectos de Investigación Orientados (PIO), the president of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Dr. Roberto Salvarezza, and the director of the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales –FLACSO-[ Latin American Faculty of...