Technology is addictive. Carme Torras Genís (Barcelona, 1956) remarked this in one of her lectures, in which she usually warns of the need for an ethical perspective in robot design. She is a research professor at the Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics (a joint
Apart from the double helix, DNA can present other structures such as G-quadruplexes, whose study has boomed in recent years.
Everything we learn is stored in the brain with connections between neurons, which we call «neural plasticity». It is most pronounced in childhood and gradually decreases with age.
Can humans control the future evolution of our species? Based on current knowledge in genetics, one can infer and extrapolate what may happen in the near future. After all, if we are to predict the future, we must first understand the foundations of our present.
Just by using a small part of the trail that we leave on the Internet, one can elaborate a sufficiently approximate profile.
Biotechnological research has made significant progress; however, some of its results are controversial because of their health and environmental risks, and these limit their application because of the precautionary measures applied to them.
«There are some things that words cannot explain, there are some things that scientists cannot discover.» This is a personal statement by the artist Lidó Rico. This may be the reason why the project «Genoarchitecture» was born, a combination of art and neuroscience. Two neuroscientists, Kuei
[caption id="attachment_18596" align="alignleft" width="320"] 2007 commemorative stamp with the face of the physiologist and physician Hans Selye, on the occasion of the one hundred anniversary of his birth. / Mètode[/caption] It's not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it. (Hans Selye) Humans have always been extraordinary
Pepa Granados Ángel Carracedo (1955) is Professor of Legal Medicine and Director of the Institute of Legal Medicine of the University of Santiago de Compostela. He is an internationally renowned expert in forensic genetics and member of regulatory bodies
Medical physics uses knowledge from fundamental physics and applies to medicine, particularly to diseases such as cancer and those produced by neural disorders such as Alzheimer's. IFIMED, Institute for Medical Physics located in the Science Park of the University of Valencia, researches on improving accelerators