Gabriela Bustelo's planet woman: decifering posthuman identity

Some critics have argued that Posthumanism both precedes but also follows Humanism. Many of those crities also agree that Posthumanism must be conceived as a paradigm driven and sustained by exponential technological and scientific developments and their impact in reconfiguring normative conceptions concerning our understanding of what it means to be human. Gabriela Bustelo's Female Planet (Planeta hembra) offers a valid approach to exploring notions of such a posthuman condition in which the merging of biology and machine redesigns notions of human identity, drives human desire and reshapes attitudes regarding issues of power, sex and gender struggles.Algunos críticos han afirmado que el poshumanismo tanto precede como sigue al humanismo. Muchos de ellos concuerdan en que el poshumanismo ha de concebirse como un paradigma informado por avances tecnocientíficos que sirven para reconfigurar nuestra forma de definir lo humano. Planeta hembra, de Gabriela Bustelo, nos ofrece un buen ejemplo de la confluencia poshumana de biología y máquina en cuanto a las dimensiones de poder, sexo, y género se refiere

Reclutamiento de menores de edad en la Ley de Amnistía del proceso de paz en Colombia

Trabajo de InvestigaciónEl conflicto armado que ha atravesado Colombia por más de 50 años, ha evidenciado la difícil situación de la infancia en Colombia frente al reclutamiento forzado del que son víctimas por grupos armados al margen de la ley. La coacción a la que se ven sometidos determina la entrada de estos menores a grupos armados, donde deben ejercer diferentes funciones. En el marco del Acuerdo de Paz, se pactó la amnistía para una serie de delitos cometidos por los guerrilleros de las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (en adelante FARC), buscando establecer condiciones especiales de juzgamiento. Resulta relevante determinar cómo se juzgará el delito de reclutamiento forzado de menores en el marco de la implementación del proceso de paz que atraviesa Colombia.Introducción 1. Delito de Reclutamiento forzado de niños, niñas y adolescentes: Definiciones y contexto en Colombia 2. Indulto y amnistía para crímenes de guerra como el reclutamiento forzado de menores de edad. 3. El análisis de constitucionalidad de la Ley de amnistía en Colombia Conclusiones ReferenciasPregradoAbogad

Halving poverty in Mexico

We estimate the required time and the minimum necessary growth rate to halve poverty incidence and poverty intensity in Mexico’s rural and urban areas for a series of counterfactual distribution and growth scenarios. Results show that, given the current income distribution, per capita incomes in the rural area would have to grow faster –in some cases eight times faster– than they have done historically to shrink poverty by half by 2015. In contrast, income in the urban sector would have to grow around 1 per cent per year to reach the same goal, which seems a more reasonable outcome given its behavior in past years.economic growth, millennium development goals, poverty goals, poverty measurement, Mexico.

Análisis del efecto de las poliaminas 1,3-diaminopropano y espermidina sobre el proteoma intracelular del hongo productor de penicilina Penicillium chrysogenum

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CRISPR/Cas9-mediated editing of the TM6 MADS-box gene in the octoploid strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa)

El contenido del poster presentado está desarrollado en: doi:10.1093/jxb/ery400 y Publicado por Oxford University pressThe B-class of MADS-box transcription factors has been studied in many plant species, but remain functionally uncharacterized in the Rosaceae family. APETALA3 (AP3), a member of this class, controls the identity of petals and stamens in Arabidopsis thaliana. In this work, we identified two members of the AP3 lineage in the cultivated strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa): FaAP3 and FaTM6. Interestingly, FaTM6, and not FaAP3, shows an expression pattern equivalent to that of AP3 in Arabidopsis. Genome editing using Cluster Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 system is becoming a robust tool for targeted and stable mutagenesis of DNA. However, whether it can be efficiently used in an octoploid species such as F. × ananassa is not known. In our study, we report the application of the CRISPR/Cas9 in F. × ananassa to characterize the function of FaTM6 in flower development. An exhaustive analysis by high-throughput sequencing of the FaTM6 locus spanning the target sites showed a high efficiency genome editing already in the T0 generation. The phenotypic characterization of the mutant lines indicates that FaTM6 plays a key role in petal and especially in anther development in strawberry. Our results validate the CRISPR/Cas9 strategy for gene functional analysis in an octoploid species such as F. × ananassa, and offer new opportunities for engineering strawberry to improve traits of interest in breeding programs.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech