EstherArévalo Notícia 5

Tenerife researchers working on a cancer vaccine

  http://diariodeavisos.elespanol.com/2016/12/investigadores-la-isla-trabajan-una-vacuna-pionera-cancer/

The Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology of the Canaries Higher Research Center (CSIC) is leading a project that can deal with prostate cancer, one of the typologies of this disease that affects men the world over. The deputy director of this center, Juan Ignacio Padrón, is the coordinator of the project.The project has been funded by scholarships awarded by Europe under the name Marie Curie.

The main objective of this vaccine is to use it in patients already sick and not in a preventive way, in this way the vaccine can replace chemotherapy. One of the researchers emphasized that this vaccine simply attacks the bad cells and would not produce those side effects that you suffer with chemotherapy; For example, hair loss.

The basis of the vaccine is to inject a molecule that allows reactivating the immune system to cope with cancer cells by itself. The head of the project said that one of the problems of cancer is that the cells affected by this pathology are invisible to the immune system, and therefore can not cope with it, as it does with other diseases. Therefore, the vaccine aims to activate the system so that it can fight alone against prostate cancer.

Its future use in patients, the coordinator clarified that it is still early to set a date, as the entire work process must be completed first, which can take several years. This scientific initiative is being carried out from the CSIC with the collaboration of The Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, (United States).

                  









In my opinion, it is fascinating the advances in medicine that are nowadays; They study new diseases, their cures, their symptoms, every day the treatments are improved against in cancer etc. Therefore I think that it does not matter how long it takes you to do something but how many men will live healthy and calm. This vaccine, if it becomes feasible, could help live that 1 in 6 men who have this cancer, so I think it's great that you have different in
vestors to collaborate with the maintenance of the team and the progress in research.

16/12/2016

 VOCABULARI 

Cope-to come into contact; meet. Awarded- to give because of merit; bestow: For example : The Nobel Committee awarded him the prize money. 

 

Aims- figurative( pretender, aspirar a ..) For example: When I play, I aim to win.  (Cuando juego pretendo ganar)                                

                                                                                                         Juan Padrón

	Ambit-- medicine

 

Andrea Vila, PSEUDOSCIENCE

Cryptozoology

It is the study of mythological animals, which they aren’t recognised as real by the science. This is because Cryptozoology doesn’t based in comply with the scientific method by not taking measurements and direct observations for draw conclusions, it’s based in what other persons said and oral traditions.

There are a lot of mythological animals in the history of the world and people years ago believed in their existence. Now we do not believe too much in its existence because there are advances in technology and science that prove that they do not exist, but not everyone believes in the new advances and thinks that these animals are real and that we are in
danger.

The most famous or important mythological animals are these:

• The Chupacabras:The Term of Chupacabras is the name of a contemporary legendary cryptid, described as a creature that would attack animals of different species in cattle or rural áreas. It is said to exist in South America. There are a lot of  physical descriptions of the Chupacabras and someones are similar  The physical descriptions are of people who say that they saw the Chupacabras eating their animals, but nobody has been able to have proof of its existence.  

(This is what people say that they saw)

• El Yeti: A legendary creature from the mythology of Tibet and Nepal and interpreted as a giant gorilla.  In 2008, a Japanese research group led by scientist Yoshiteru Takashi, traveled for 42 days by Dhaulagiri IV. When they arrived, they showed photos of footprints 20 cm long, and believed that the footprints were from the Yeti. But there aren’t more proofs of his existence, there are only the potos and histories.

• The Ness Lake Monster: This is the only creature that has any evidence of its existence, but certainly there isn't proofs of this monster for a scientific reason. This is beacuse is imposible that a so big monster survives in a lake so small and with almost no food. But many local people argue in favor of its existence, however some skeptics suggest that these rumors of Nessie exist to favor to the industry of the tourism and the local folklore. Physically Nessie is a plesiosaur or some kind of aquatic dinosa

In my opinión all these animals don't exist or I don't want  to believe that exist because there are like monsters, they can hurt or kill us and this scary me. In my favor, there aren't enough proofs to admit that in the actuallity exists any of these creatures. This is because in the actuallity we have advances and we can do reserch and and find proofs, and most of people have studies and study in a school.
In the past people studied at home with their families and the histories of this mythological animals were transmitted orally in houses from generation to generation and people were very superstitious, they believe in this creatures . Another thing is that in the past there wasn't the technology that there is now.

In conlusion, this mythological animals don't exist because we don't have proofs

GISELA BOADA NOTICIA 4/5

Qué beneficios tiene tener pesadillas?

Esta noticia es del ámbito psicológico/médico porqué habla de los sueños y su repercusión.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/science/how-good-is-a-bad-nights-sleep.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=8&pgtype=sectionfront&_r=1

RESUM

Este breve artículo habla de los beneficios que conlleva tener pesadillas, lo que viene a decir que dentro de lo mal que se puede pasar teniendo una pesadilla, es un buen síntoma ya que significa que no tienes insomnio, cosa que si puede ser algo muy perjudicial en nuestra salud tanto física como mental.

COMENTARI DE TEXT

Dentro del ámbito del sueño y el insomnio, podríamos decir que lo peor que puede pasar es no poder disfrutar de ello, por lo tanto pienso que el hecho de tener sueños, o en algunos casos, pesadillas, es simplemente una pequeña demostración de nuestros miedos, inquietudes o aspiraciones personales. Todo ello es bueno es su justa medida, el analizar los relatos que nuestra mente relata, podemos sacar muchas conclusiones sobre nuestro estado psicológico en ese momento, igual pasa con los sueños, aunque sea una de sus vertientes más negativas. El insomnio, por otro lado, no acarrea más que consecuencias negativas en lo que al individuo concierne, ya que la falta de sueño no tiene ningún beneficio para el ser humano

GLOSSARI

pesadillas: Sueño desagradable que produce angustia, ansiedad, miedo o terror