Historical manuscripts on the web; No damage to healthy tissue; New version of the automatic translator Machin; New rescue system for avalanches
The oldest scientific institution
in the world, the British Royal Society, has created the Internet portal "Trailblazing". It contains manuscripts of some of the most important scientific discoveries of the last 350 years. Among the documents, for example, is the document of a study of 1776. It shows how Captain James Cook saved his sailors from scurvy by feeding them cabbage, lemon and vinegar malt, that is, long before he began to develop research on nutrition.
DAMAGE TO HEALTHY TISSUE An interdisciplinary team
of researchers has managed to kill cancer cells without causing damage to healthy tissue. The key is in the inhibition of the CDK2 protein. This finding paves the way for the search for drugs that, unlike chemotherapy and radiotherapy, only attack the tumor. Among the researchers is the Basque Oskar Fernández Capetillo.
The Elhuyar Foundation and the IXA Group
of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) have presented the improved version of the automatic Spanish-Basque translator Machin, developed by Eleka. Makin is an open source application that is part of the Opentrad platform that was created five years ago. The revamped version has two main characteristics: the improvement of the quality of the translator from Spanish to Basque and the first prototype of the translator from Basque to Spanish Machin. Both translators www.opentrad.com can be used on the website for free.
NEW RESCUE SYSTEM FOR AVALANCHES A
team of researchers from Lemania has created a new system to find people in avalanches. Considering that today almost all people are wearing their mobile phone, two new functions have been added to the existing RNA system: the function of locating the mobile phone, and a computer program with the power to determine the position of a person based on measurements taken on the ground. The new system uses signals from the Galileo global navigation system.
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