EGLC Journal

  • La máquina de hacer pastillas – The pill-making machine

    Pharmaceutical companies do not set their prices based on production costs, but rather based on market price. In courtiers under development, this frequently limits the access of pharmaceutical products to people that need them but cannot afford it. Price mainly depends on the relationship between supply and demand, competition with other suppliers, and the level

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  • Of Mice and Humans

    Experimental data is what we do with it. It is the analysis that makes them relevant (or not). We have to be especially careful to look at it as fairly as possible. Otherwise, we will see whatever each of us wants to see, always. In February 2013, Junhee Seok showed that mouse models poorly mimic

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  • De ratones y humanos – Of Mice and Humans

    In most cases, experiments performed in animal models represent a valuable tool to understand human diseases. However, to a greater or lesser extent, there can be some degree of subjectivity on how scientists analyze the obtained data. We have to be especially careful to look at it as fairly as possible. Otherwise, we might see

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  • Reproducibility Crisis in the Sciences: The “Agitation”

    The following article, previously published in the magazine El Gato y La Caja, presents and retracts a problem in the world of today’s scientific laboratories. What about experiments? Why don’t scientists get the same result twice? The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was born in 1886 and quickly became a classic to

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