The United Nations University Programme of Biotechnology for Latin America and the Caribbean has funded over 400 short fellowships for scientists that have an opportunity to train in or do a piece of research with technology available in laboratories outside of their home country. This not only speeds up the transfer of research technology and know-how whithin the region, but also solidifies scientific collaboration networks across the continent.
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Turning Toxic Wastewater into Clean Energy
Facundo Dominguez is researching the potential of a yeast to eliminate waste from the textile industry and convert it into extractable lipids
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Local, Native Produce for Global Impact
René Lobo is introducing native Chilto to trending markets by biotechnologically improving its nutritional properties
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Breaking through neurocysticercosis, the old-fashioned way
Lucia Celia Abril Garcia developed a pipeline to isolate parasitic microRNAS for an eventual early diagnostic protocol for this taeniasis
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Closing the Circle for Sugarcane
Mariela Torres is working to turn acidic waste into thriving harvests
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Maricary Sifontes is Constructing Efficient Delivery Systems for Gene Therapy
Designed In-silico, the new peptides traveled from Cuba to Brazil for testing
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Save Toads, Beat Cancer
Nature is a repository of therapeutic molecules, and Talia Frometa's work is living proof of why we need to protect her
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Gabriela Ramos is helping save cocoa plantations from an aggresive fungus
By using computers to model its pathogenic effector proteins and their interactions with possible blockers
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Candela Bayon is studying G-quadruplexes looking for answers to the onset of genetic diseases
Non-canonical DNA structures like these may hold the key to understanding how some types of cancer are triggered.
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Elizabeth Monroy is studying frogs to find ways to decrease application of post-harvest fungicides in citrus crops
The frog's skin microbiome holds the keys to controlling at least some of the most feared harvest-attacking fungi