Rapid progress of experimental biology has provided a huge flow of quantitative data, which can be analyzed and understood only through the application of advanced techniques recently developed in theoretical sciences. On ...

Fotografías tomadas a 2300 msm

Most neurodegenerative diseases involve the accumulation of misfolded proteins in the nervous system. Impairment of protein degradation pathways such as autophagy is emerging as a consistent and transversal pathological ...

Epistemology is an area that allows reflections about nature and construction of knowledge. In what is referred to Biological Sciences, the concept of evolution is understood as unifier axis of this science and therefore ...

In Costa Rica the development of cryopreservation research is recent. It started in 1990 with a project on bananas and plantains at the Agronomic Center for Research and Training (CATIE), followed by research on coffee, ...

In vitro conservation of chayote (Sechium edule). The in vitro medium-term conservation technique was assayed on chayote. Survival was assayed after the addition of high concentration of sucrose (0, 30, 50, 60, 70 y 80 ...