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The Faculty of Sport of UCAM, through the project ‘REAL’ (Reserve A Lane For The Disabled), gives swimming lessons to students with physical disabilities so that they can achieve a greater autonomy in various social areas.
The Catholic University of Murcia (UCAM) has presented about forty activities that will be available from today until next Sunday on the occasion of the Science Week held at the Botanical Garden of Paseo del Malecón (Murcia)<br /> <br />
One of the advantages it offers is that it is not rejected and is easily fixed to the tissue where it is implanted. It would avoid removing bone tissue from another part of the patient’s own body or using donor bones to repair any bone defect.
They are mouse embryods (in the blastocyst phase) for whose creation he has used iPS cells. The advance will allow to study, without having to use natural embryos nor gametes, the development of the first embryonic stages, the causes of miscarriages or the onset of diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, and it will provide valuable information for the creation of human organs for transplants. The research has been developed by the team of scientists led by Dr. Juan Carlos Izpisua, director of the Gene Expression Laboratory of the Salk Institute, in the US, and Professor of Developmental Biology at the UCAM.
Pablo Marcos-Pardo, researcher of the Catholic University of Murcia received in Madrid the honour as coordinator of the network ‘HEALTHY-AGE: Active ageing, exercise and health’<br /> <br />
Through its Faculty of Sport, it will analyse and make proposals, together with institutions from thirteen European Countries, on how to improve in this field through marketing, administration, physical activity inside and outside school, the adaptation of sport for people with disabilities or as a tool for the inclusion of refugees.
Juan Carlos Izpisua, professor of Developmental Biology at the UCAM encourages UCAM students to do research
"The constant support by the UCAM is something unusual because in our country research is not considered important, and this makes me proud of these four years of collaboration”. This is one of the ideas highlighted by Juan Carlos Izpisua, professor extraordinary of Developmental Biology of the UCAM, throughout the presentation of the project ‘Collaboration UCAM-Primafrio: an example of scientific patronage’ that was held this afternoon in Los Jerónimos Campus.
The research team led by the Professor of the Gene Expression Laboratory of the Salk Institute, in the US, and Professor of Developmental Biology of the UCAM has observed, after testing the technique (SATI) in mice with progeria (premature ageing), a rejuvenation in various tissues, including skin and spleen, and 45% increase in their lifespan, which would be equivalent to more than a decade in case of humans. The advance has been published by the scientific journal Cell Research.
<br /> During the audience, Pope Francis greeted the representants from the university centres and institutes of study on ‘Family’, coming from different countries where they debated on relational poverty and Vatican economy<br /> The Pope showed a special proximity with UCAM president, José Luis Mendoza, to whom he asked about his family, and showed interest towards the projects started by the university in collaboration with the Holy See<br />
