2017 promises, and the year has started with a lot of fascinating science news. The journal Nature had already made its prediction for the coming year: you can reread here the 10 scientific milestones for 2017.
The Moon has been one of the first protagonists of the month of January, and it is that a team of researchers from Israel has dismantled the theory about the origin of our satellite. According to their evidence, the Moon would have formed as a result, not of a single geological event, but of several concatenated collisions.
Another of the great scientific news of January came to us from Japan: a team of researchers confirmed that, after a stem cell transplant, they had managed to restore sight to blind mice. Without a doubt, great news for biomedicine, because the next step will be to test the same technique in humans who suffer from retinal degeneration .
Discovering the secret of the tomato
After studying almost 400 varieties of tomatoes, an international team in which Spanish researchers participated has identified the chemical compounds responsible for making tomatoes taste like that, like tomato. They publish their findings in the journal Science and reveal that traditional varieties have higher amounts of those compounds that give the aroma and flavor to tomatoes. You can read all the details again in this article: They discover how to restore the flavor to tomatoes.
Science has also left us some curious news , for example that genetics has a lot to do with choosing a partner to maintain a stable relationship. And, after all, perpetuating genes is still a priority.
We have also been struck by a fairly exhaustive study on the real effects of cannabis use on human health, also at the therapeutic level. The work consists of what in statistics is called ‘meta-analysis’ and which is now very popular, as it consists of collecting data from many different scientific works on the same topic to try to draw generalized conclusions.
And finally, bad news that comes to us on the eve of World Cancer Day : half of the men and a third of the women in our country will have cancer at some point in their lives, according to the latest report presented by the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology. The good news: more and more progress is being made in early detection, a fact that, together with advances in research, will also reduce, we hope, the mortality rates due to this disease .
