Al Gore's Biography

Al Gore served for eight years as vice-president under Bill Clinton, then was the Democratic Party's nominee for president in 2000. Gore's father, Albert Gore Sr., served 32 years as a U.S. representative and senator from Tennessee. The younger Gore served in the U.S. Army and worked briefly as a newspaper reporter before winning election to Congress in 1976. In 1984 I moved up to the Senate and was re-Elected in 1990. After making a run at the presidency in 1988, Gore was Chosen by Clinton to be his 1992 running mate, the two were Elected and then re-Elected in 1996. Gore's detail-oriented concern for environmental and economic issues earned him a reputation as a "policy wonk" and a somewhat wooden personality. Al Gore won the Democratic Party nomination for U.S. president in 2000, choosing Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman as his running mate, in the November General election They ran against the Republican ticket of G. Bush and Cheney. After a post-election delay of a month while votes were recounted and lawsuits were filed on Both Sides, Gore conceded the election to Bush on December 13, 2000. Gore actually received more popular votes than Bush: the final official tally was 50,158,094 votes for Gore to 49,820,518 votes for Bush. But after being Awarded Florida, Bush led in electoral votes, 271 to 267. In later years Gore dedicated himself to raising public awareness overall acerca warming. A documentary about Gore and climate change, titled An Inconvenient Truth, was released in 2006, the film was Given an Oscar as the year's best documentary (though Gore himself was not Awarded an Oscar). Stephen Schwartz wins Richard was Gore 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his work on climate change.

Nuclear transferency - Dolly Sheep

Nuclear transferency - Dolly Sheep

Dolly the sheep May have been the world 's most famous clone, but she was not the first. Cloning Creates a genetically identical copy of an Animal or plant. Many animals - Including frogs and cows - Dolly had been cloned before. Often Plants are cloned - taking a cutting produces a clone of the original plant. Also Human identical twins are clones.

How Dolly was cloned

To produce Dolly, the scientists used the nucleus of an udder cell from a six-year-old Finn Dorset white sheep. The nucleus contains nearly all the cell's genes. They had to find a way to 'reprogram' the udder cells - to keep them alive but stop them growing - which They Achieved by altering the growth medium (the 'soup' in Which the cells were kept alive). Then They injected the cell into an unfertilised egg cell Which had had its nucleus removed, and made ​​the cells fuse by using electrical pulses. The unfertilised egg cell came from a Scottish Blackface ewe. When the research team had managed to fuse the nucleus from the adult cell with the white sheep egg cell from the black-faced sheep, They needed to make sure the Resulting cell That would Develop into an embryo. They cultured it for six or seven days to see if it divided and developed normally, before implanting it into a surrogate mother, another Scottish Blackface ewe. Dolly had a white face.

What happened to Dolly?

Born on 5 July 1996, she was euthanased on 14 February 2003, aged six and a half. Sheep can live to age 11 or 12, but Dolly Suffered from arthritis in a hind leg joint and from sheep pulmonary adenomatosis, to virus-induced lung Tumour to Which prone sheep are raised indoors.

Mendel's Biography

Mendel's Biography

Johann Mendel was born July 20, 1822 in Heinzendorf, Austria.
From a farming family. As a child, Mendel worked as a gardener and Studied beekeeping.
Mendel was sent to the Piarist school in Lipnik (Leipnik) in 1831. This was followed by grammar school at the age of 12 in Opava (Troppau). Mendel did very well in school, and furthered his studies at the Institute of Philosophy in Olomouc (Olmutz) in 1840. His family was not very well off, and Could not afford to continue financing his studies, so upon the advice of one of his teachers.
I Described the laws governing government heredity, through the work Carried out with different varieties of pea plants (Pisum sativum). His work was not appreciated When published in 1866. Hugo de Vries, a Dutch botanist, With Carl Correns and Erich von Tschermak rediscovered Mendel's laws separately in 1900.

Enfermedad de Hutchison.

 HUTCHISON

La progeria está reconocida como una laminopatía, asociada a mutaciones en el gen LMNA que codifica para la lámina A/C, el componente principal de las láminas nucleares. La mutación más frecuente, es una mutación puntual en la posición 1824 en el exón 11, que crea una mutación en el codón 608 y activa el sitio críptico de splice llevando a una lámina A truncada. Como consecuencia esto lleva a la pérdida de 50 aminoácidos en el terminal-C de la forma de la proteína conocida como progerina o lámina AD50. Esto tiene como consecuencia la disrupción del ensamblaje normal de la envoltura nuclear, la función nuclear y la función de la lámina A. Afecta específicamente la maduración de la prelaminina A a la laminina A, por lo tanto la progeria es un desorden que tiene un efecto profundo en la integridad del tejido conectivo. Esto es crítico para el soporte nuclear y para la organización de la cromatina. Teniendo en cuenta lo anterior, los estudios se han basado en fibroblastos, ya que la enfermedad se manifiesta en el tejido conectivo. Se han encontrado cambios en la glicosilación de los fibroblastos, pero aún no se sabe si esto se debe a algún estado de la enfermedad, o a la adquisición de mutaciones genómicas.
Las células presentan un núcleo con alteraciones estructurales (herniaciones y lóbulos) así como defectos en la organización de la heterocromatina. Molecularmente presentan un defecto en el mecanismo de reparación del ADN como consecuencia de la rotura de la hélice doble

Diagnóstico

Al nacer, los niños con progeria parecen normales aunque esclerodermas, cianosis facial y nariz esculpida pueden ser aparentes. Los síntomas se manifiestan durante el primer año, con uno o con varios de las siguientes anomalías: retardo en el crecimiento, alopecia, anomalías en la piel


Pronóstico


El promedio de vida en niños enfermos es de 13 años, pero puede estar entre 7-45 años, aunque la supervivencia más allá de la adolescencia es inusual. En más del 80% de los casos la muerte se debe a complicaciones que surgen, como la ateroesclerosis, fallas del corazón, infarto del miocardio y trombosis

Gattaca

Gattaca

Gattaca es una película muy interesante además de curiosa.

En la película, los habitantes de aquél mundo futurístico, podías elegir los aspectos que tendrían tu hijo. Este podía tener las caracteres que tu eligieras. Además de esto, al nacer salían los sucesos vitales por los cuales el bebé moriría.

Mi opinión sobre la película

, es muy buena, me ha gustado mucho ya que también trata el tema de la superación.

Gattaca trata sobre la vida de Vincent, que al nacer, no tuvo los privilegios de tener los caracteres seleccionados por sus padres y por lo tanto nace con muchos problemas vitales. A pesar de ello, intentará llegar a una nave que hará un trasbordo lunar haciendose pasar por un hombre que loe prestará su sangre ( a través de transfusiones sanguíneas, aspecto etc...)

Al final de la trama, Vincent consigue su objetivo a pesar de numerosos problemas.

Derechos a la salud en España

Derechos a la salud en España

Artículos de la Constitución Española 

Art. 15. 

Todos tienen derecho a la vida y a la integridad física y moral, sin que, en ningún caso, puedan ser sometidos a torturas ni a penas o tratos inhumanos o degradantes. Queda abolida la pena de muerte, salvo lo que puedan disponer las Leyes penales militares para tiempos de guerra.

Art. 40.

1. Los poderes públicos promoverán las condiciones favorables para el progreso social y económico y para una distribución de la renta regional y personal más equitativa en el marco de una política de estabilidad económica. De manera especial realizarán una política orientada al pleno empleo.

2. Asimismo, los poderes públicos fomentarán una política que garantice la formación y readaptación profesionales; velarán por la seguridad e higiene en el trabajo y garantizarán el descanso necesario mediante la limitación de la jornada laboral, las vacaciones periódicas retribuidas y la promoción de centros adecuados.

Art. 43.

1. Se reconoce el derecho a la protección de la salud.

2. Compete a los poderes públicos organizar y tutelar la salud pública a través de medidas preventivas y de las prestaciones y servicios necesarios. La ley establecerá los derechos y deberes de todos al respecto.

3. Los poderes públicos fomentarán la educación sanitaria, la educación física y el deporte. Asimismo facilitarán la adecuada utilización del ocio.

Los efectos del alcohol

The effects of alcohol

Everybody responds differently to drinking alcohol so it is not possible to say what effects havng a certain number of drinks has on a person. Instead blood alcohol concentration (BAC) can be used as a guide to what affects alcohol may have on behaviour.

• SHORT EFFECTS

Alcohol starts to affect the brain within five minutes of being consumed. The BAC peaks about 30-45 minutes after one standard drink is consumed. Rapid consumption of multiple drinks results in higher BAC because the average body can only break down one standard drink per hour.

Depending of the number of alcohol we have in our body, we will feel these emotions.

• Feeling of well-being:

1. Talkative
2. Relaxed
3. More confident

• Some raised risk:

1. Talkative
2. Acts and feels self-confident
3. Judgment and movement impaired
4. Inhibitions reduced

• Moderately raised risk

1. Speech slurred
2. Balance and coordination impaired
3. Reflexes slowed
4. Visual attention impaired
5. Unstable emotions
6. Nausea, vomiting

• Very Elevated Risk:

1. Unable to walk without help
2. Apathetic, sleepy
3. Laboured breathing
4. Unable to remember events
5. Loss of bladder control
6. Possible loss of consciousness

• Death:

1. Coma
2. Death

Effects of alcohol in long-time

Long-term effects

Each year approximately 3000 people die as a result of excessive alcohol consumption and around 100,000 people are hospitalised. Long-term excessive alcohol consumption is associated with:

• heart damage
• high blood pressure and stroke
• liver disease
• cancers of the digestive system
• other digestive system disorders (eg stomach ulcers)
• sexual impotence and reduced fertility
• increasing risk of breast cancer
• sleeping difficulties
• brain damage with mood and personality changes
• concentration and memory problems
• nutrition-related conditions
• risks to unborn babies.

In addition to health problems, alcohol also impacts on relationships, finances, work, and may result in legal problems.