Science in the world (malu)

Science in the world: Can we rewrite our whole history?
5 scientific advances that in the last decade have brought a great change to humanity
By MARIA LUISA DIAZ March 31st, 2017
The Science magazine, considerate one of the temples of the science in the world, have
selected the most important advances, this advances were specifically in 2014 and last year
(2016). First, we have “The X planet”; that is a possible candidate to become in the ninth
planet of the solar system. Its existence was proposed in 2016 and it is expected to be found
in three years. Some scientists have suggested that it could explain a slight movement of the
solar system. It has been proposed too, that its actual position could be thanks to a
gravitational thrust given by Jupiter last year. Until now, it could not be observed directly
through a telescope, but evidences say that its size is similar to Neptune and that its orbit is
very distant. In the second place, Chips that mimic the human brain. In August (2014), an
American multinational called IBM, presented their chip TrueNorth¸ it tries to imitate the
human brain`s functioning. It is too far from the capacities of kilo and a half of gray matter of
each person, but Science magazine thinks that in the future there will be computers based
on this technology that will can do works with a lot of information like the images analysis,
with more efficiency that the actual machines. Third, The possible cure to diabetes. This
sickness is caused by lack of insulin, a hormone produced by the cells of the pancreas, and it
does that a person cannot regulate its sugar levels in the blood. In April (2014), researchers
of the Stem cell`s Foundation of NY, managed to produce producing cells of insulin from the
skin of a 32 year old woman with diabetes type 1; thanks to a technique called “therapeutic
cloning”. We have also an interesting question: Does young blood rejuvenates? Blood, or
any blood component, of a young mouse can rejuvenate the muscles and brain of an old
mouse, according with two studies of the Therapy Center with stem cells and regenerative
medicine of Harvard (EEUU), directed by the researcher Douglas Melton. The works
observed that an isolated protein of the young mousses blood improve smell and other
capacities of old mousses after being injected in their bloodstream. Stanford University
(EEUU) is testing if this strategy works in humans too. And finally, Life`s alphabet win two
artificial letters. Life`s alphabet, DNA, is so boring. All books say that in all living beings cells,
there are the same four letters: G, C, A and T; initials of the four compounds that form the
DNA. But in 2014, in the Investigation Institute of Scripps (USA), a group of scientists created
two new artificial letters, called X and Y, and insert them in a DNA`s living being; the
Escherichia coli (a bacterium). The possibility to add new letters to DNA, open the door to
create artificial bacteriums able to synthesize medicine among other applications, some of
them unimaginable today.

5 th .