Pablo Ortega Ferron

14 days ago - Technology and Innovation

The science of education

"Every scientist started in a classroom, but back in the classroom this time at the front of the class, I was asked, what is the best way to guide the scientists of tomorrow in today's classrooms?"

By Pablo Ortega Ferron

4/14/2025 - Technology and Innovation

Welcome to Jurassic Park: reality catches up with fiction

The Colossal Bioscience team has achieved something that previously belonged only to the realm of science fiction, and with this impressive milestone in genetic modification they are taking a giant step forward in species conservation, and in many other fields.

By Pablo Ortega Ferron

3/18/2025 - Technology and Innovation

Science and Ethics Encountered: Genetic Modification

The use of genetic modification has been part of human history since time immemorial, but today it has the ability to achieve impressive things. However, at what point should we start asking ourselves not if it is possible, but rather if it is right?

By Pablo Ortega Ferron

3/14/2025 - Technology and Innovation

"When sugar weighs: diabetes and cognitive decline"

Diabetes is a disease with multisystemic effects; cognitive decline is one of the most recently associated consequences of this condition.

By Pablo Ortega Ferron

3/7/2025 - Politics and Society

In the information age, misinformation is stronger than ever, an ominous paradox

Living in the information age and being more uninformed than ever, this paradox is a much bigger threat than it seems.

By Pablo Ortega Ferron

2/13/2025 - Technology and Innovation

"Live the resistance"

Bacterial resistance to antibiotics represents one of the strongest threats to public health today.

By Pablo Ortega Ferron

7/31/2024 - Technology and Innovation

The more the better: microbial consortia as a key tool in bioremediation

Bioremediation is an emerging technology that seeks the cleaning and, more importantly, the restoration of contaminated ecosystems; microbial consortia are one of its most useful tools.

By Pablo Ortega Ferron

7/26/2024 - Technology and Innovation

He is not the blue-blooded prince we dream of, but he is the one we...

Horseshoe crabs are very interesting animals that not many people know about, but they play an extremely important role in the pharmaceutical industry, and we have all benefited from their strange contribution to public health.

By Pablo Ortega Ferron

11/23/2023 - Technology and Innovation

A technological forecasting exercise, the future of proteomics

By Pablo Ortega Ferron

11/16/2023 - Technology and Innovation

The weight of innovation and the responsibility this entails

By Pablo Ortega Ferron

8/3/2023 - Technology and Innovation

Apology to laboratory animals, the "pets of science".

By Pablo Ortega Ferron

7/14/2023 - Technology and Innovation

Genetics: a gold mine we take inside

By Pablo Ortega Ferron

2/6/2023 - Technology and Innovation

Genomic analysis of Down Syndrome

By Pablo Ortega Ferron

1/24/2023 - Technology and Innovation

PrPSc protein analysis in relation to spongiform brain diseases

By Pablo Ortega Ferron