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16 September 2014image source, AFPcaption, A sketch of Boeing's CST-100 space capsule.The US space agency NASA announced on Tuesday that it opened a contract with private companies Boeing and SpaceX (for amounts of US$4.2 billion and US$2.6 billion respectively) for the construction of new spacecraft that will transport astronauts to the International Space Station.The news was communicated by the administrator of NASA, Charles Bolden, who explained that they have set themselves the ambitious goal of 2017 to carry out the first launch from US territory since the shuttle program ended in 2011.For the past three years, American astronauts have had…

Combining data from almost 40 studies, a scientific team has achieved create the single cell atlas of the entire human lungthat reveals unusual cell types and serves to advance understanding of disease pulmonary. According to those responsible, it is the largest and most complete cellular map of this organ and it will be a valuable resource for lung researchers and to identify new therapeutic targets. Details of this collection, for which machine learning has been used, are published in the journal Nature Medicine. Behind the "Atlas of Human Lung Cells", which shows the KEY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HEALTH AND DISEASEthey are…

Researchers from the University of Barcelona (UB) have identified in a study with animal models new neural circuits that are altered in Huntington's disease, a genetically based neurodegenerative disorder that causes motor, cognitive and psychiatric alterations. The journal 'Journal of Neuroscience' has published the findings of the work about this rare and hereditary disease which usually manifests itself in adults between 35 and 50 years of age and which is associated with the dysfunction of some neural pathways in the brain, the UB reported in a statement this Thursday. in a previous work also with animal models have characterized one…

An Antigua and Barbuda woman and her daughter, as well as an 80-year-old man, will fly into space with Virgin Galactic on August 10. This mission, named Galactic 02, will be the second commercial flight of the American company founded by billionaire Richard Branson. If the test flights are included, it will be the seventh time the spacecraft has gone into space. Keisha Schahaff, 46, and her daughter Anastatia Mayers, 18, they won the ticket in a raffle after participating in a fundraising event organized by Virgin Galactic. The amount the mother donated was not disclosed, but donations started at…