The medicine is based on years of international research
increasing longevity generation after generation.
However, false beliefs, in good or bad faith,
have ended the life of some babies
and have put a child with autism in danger.
Let me explain…
Romania recently declared a measles outbreak
after the death of three babies less than eight months,
that still hadn't entered the vaccine calendar age.
They were infected by people who had opted for the non-vaccination policy,
and that were involved in almost 700 infections.
On the other hand, the abuse of products such as naturopathy
could become dangerous to health under certain conditions.
For example, a four-year-old kid with autism almost died
for intaking up to 12 naturopathic products without medical supervision.
It happened in London and the news was published
on the scientific magazine British Medical Journal.
The parents are devastated.
Do not make experiments with your children and vaccinate your dear ones.
In what are alike the leg of a bug and a human limb?
Apparently nothing.
While our limbs are made up of different tissues
like bone, cartilage, muscle and skin,
the leg of a fly is a simple tube made up
of a chitin exoskeleton connected by internal muscles.
However, and despite the anatomical differences
between a fly and a vertebrate,
and their independent evolution over more than 500 million years,
their development is largely led
by basic genetic programs strikingly similar.
Scientifics of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas,
could identify those genes responsible
for controlling the growth of the legs of the fly,
something that could shed light
on our own development as humans.
The work has been published in Development magazine.
The essential path studied, called Notch,
is very well preserved across the animal kingdom,
and could explain the primitive mechanism
that regulates the growth of the appendices,
from flies to us.
Mathematics shows up in every field of life:
physical, chemical or biological.
In this last case,
specifically, in the biomedical field,
a coordinated study from the Instituto Gregorio Millán Barbany
of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid,
presents a model, a mathematical description,
of how tumours would induce
the growth of our blood vessels,
essential for the development of cancer.
In particular, the model proposes that the tips,
the ends of the vessels,
would spread like a solitary wave, called soliton,
-that can spread long time without much changing-
similar to the one that would be suffered with another kind of human misfortune,
the tsunamis.
The model has been confirmed through numerical simulations.
The study authors point out
that knowing the movement of the blood vessels towards the tumour
and how this progress occurs,
we could try to delay or even prevent such growth,
or at least, that said progress wouldn't reach the tumour,
causing its death from starvation.
The work has been published in Scientific Reports magazine.
For Madri+d and UNED Televisión. José Antonio López Guerrero.