"Gregor" ya está en Tenerife

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Gregor, el telescopio solar más grande de Europa ha sido inaugurado hoy en el Observatorio del Teide (Tenerife), desde donde ayudará a observar y comprender mejor los procesos solares y también los que se producen en la mayoría de estrellas del universo.

Gregor

New 'Map of Life' project aims to show distribution of all animals, plants on planet

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A research team involving Yale University and the University of Colorado Boulder has developed a first public demonstration version of its "Map of Life," an ambitious Web-based endeavor designed to show the distribution of all living plants and animals on the planet....

Map of life

Algeria to tackle HIV/AIDS

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Algeria will partner with the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) to build the first HIV/AIDS research centre in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)....

Algeria to tackle HIV/AIDS

New path of origin for macrophages

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It was thought that all macrophages were created from hematopoietic (blood) stem cells. However, some of these immune cells had also been found to exist in the yolk sac prior to the appearance of stem cells. For a long time, the existence of these extraembryonic macrophages was a puzzle to scientists. During a sabbatical at King's College in London, Dr. Christian Schulz, internist at the Deutsches Herzzentrum (German Heart Center) of the Technische Universität München, and his research colleagues set about investigating the development of macrophages in mice....

Origin of macrophages 
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