''Scientists prove cancer can be passed on in the womb''

Scientists of the university of London have proved that some cancer cells of a woman in pregnancy, can be transmitted, in rare cases, to the baby before the birth, in the womb.

Through out of the history, has been detected seventeen cases, generally of Leukaemia or melanoma, but aren´t clear the causes and the mechanisms of why this occurs.

So was watched in a case of a Japanese woman, who being in pregnancy, research a cancer and later had a normal delivery, giving birth to a girl baby in apparence healthy.

But one month later, the woman began to fell sick and has a great vaginal bleeding. She was diasnosticated and advanced leukaemia and she died.

When the new born already has eleven months of life, was brought to hospital because a sick, and she was diasnosticated with a tumor in her jaw and her lungs.

When the scientists watched this event, they traied of understand the why of the transmisión, and why the child´s imune system didn´t recognized the cancer cells and destroyed them. And they found a mutation in the genes of the cancer cells of the baby, in genes of HLA, a group of genes which make posible the recognition of the inmune system of foreign agents. So, the cancer cells wasn´t recognized by the inmune system and the baby research the cancer.

The scientists which worked in this investigation said that it´s very rare this event, to calm to the women in pregnancy that are diasnosticated whit cancer.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/oct/12/cancer-passed-from-mother-foetus

The Sports

The Sport has always been a priority for me. Since I was a child my parents encouraged to practice by buying soccer balls and tennis racquets. The truth is that they are grateful, because without exaggeration, without sport, my life would not be the same.


The truth is that I have always practiced some form of sport. I play Football since I was a child and also played tennis, I like swimming and sports has always been a way to forget my problems, stress and helped me a lot to have a better quality of life, not only from the point physically, but also the mental standpoint. People believe that sport and physical activity is performed only for a matter of esthetics or physical, both very important, but the sport also allows us to improve our quality of life in relation to the courage that we might have, since to make physical activity releases endorphins and makes us feel wonderful and happy.


That's a good reason to play sports not only individually, but also that physical activity benefits the whole of a country, since people would feel better, have better productivity at work, have fewer people with depression and our country would benefit because it would encourage more sports champions and we should leave it standing the name of Chile in other countries.For all this, added to the undoubted physical benefits (level respiratory and cardiac) that gives us the practice of physical activity, I recommend to play sports and have a nice time!

If you go to Santiago...

If you travel to Chile, and you visit Santiago, you will have many options to get fun and have a nice stay in this beautiful city. Whichever it is your intention to travel to Santiago (business, holidays, studies) you must to know this places:

1.- Forestal Park: If you want a beautiful and quite place to walking, reading, or just distracted for a moment, you should visit this beautiful park located near the center of Santiago.

2.- Quinta Normal Park: If you are searching other park, but mixed with art and culture, you must go to this beatiful place. Quinta Normal Park is a public park located in the commune of Santiago. It covers an area of about 40 hectares and its interior has an artificial lagoon. Inside there are many interesting places to visit:

- Botanic Garden and the Greenhouse, founded in 1853.
- The Museum of Contemporary Art.
- The Railroad Museum of Chile.
- The National Museum of Natural History.
- The Museum of Science and Technology.

And many others places and acitivities which will do unforgettable your visit to Santiago.

3.- The San Cristobal hill: Located between the comunnes of Providence and Recoleta, this hill is the second greater height of the city of Santiago. In this place we can found the Tupahue pool, and in its top, is the Shrine of the Immaculate Concepcion, where is the Statue of the Virgen Maria, which can be see it from all Santiago, because its great lenght.

If you don´t want to walk to the top of this hill, you may do it trought the pick tramp.

Also in this hill is the Metropolitan Zoo, with a great variety of especies.

Because this and another reasons, I recommend you visit this beautiful city...

Transantiago, before and after

The new public transport system in Santiago, called ''Transantiago'', began its operation on 10th February 2007.

In a start, had a very bad aceptation by the people. Santiago was in chaos. The people had to wait too time an even hours to take a bus to arrive to their works places in the morning, and to back to home, in the evening. Thats way, many people were unhappy with this new system of the public transport and they demanded the resignation of transport minister, because all the problems caused.

But in my opinion, not all of this change has been negative. For example, before of transantiago I did must pay my ticket with cash money, which was very uncomfortable. In this new system, I have to pay with a card rechargeable, called ''Bip'' Card, a way very much easy and comfortable to pay, and more secure for the bus driver because they haven money, and they not suffer many assaults than before the transantiago.

Other positive aspect of this change has been the reduction of environmental pollution, and acustic pollution, because the the buses are more news and modern than the another buses before of the implementation of transantiago.

The negative aspects I think is the long time that I must to wait some buses, but this problem has improved trought of the time.

In summary, I think that this change has been a good idea, and in spite of had several problems in its start, this problems has been solved step by step...

A country I would like to visit

My dream has always been to visit and know Greece, and I hope to get that dream true, maybe by job or maybe as a tourist.

The greek capital is Atenas, and this country conforms the European Union.

I like that country, mainly because the richness of it´s culture and the beautiful of it´s places, like the mount Olympus, the ``house`` of the greeks gods.

If I travel someday there, I would visit all the historics places of the greek culture and take many pictures.

One of the most incredible and beautiful monuments in the world is the partenon, a temple dedicated to Atenas, protective goddess for the greeks, and which it´s built over the greek Acropolis.

The greek culture it´s the most important and influential fot the occidental culture, even in ours times.

Also in that country born the Olpympics Games during the old times.

The most important philosophers were greeks like Homero, Hipocrates and Pitagoras.

I would like to study there or in other european country, or work there because the quality of life is better than here in south america.

Sumaring, really I hope to visit Greece someday and I think that experience would be one which that I never would forget.

My experience in the first semester

During the first semester of 2009, I did many news friends and we share goods moments at the university. I feel that I am not the same since I go to the university; I have grown as person. I did must to face hards moments too, above all in the first part of the semester, because I had many test and the contents were very hards. But studying and trying to sort my free time I finished the first semester with goods marks.

I learned many things, but respect in academic part, I learned very much about chemestry, celular biology, genetics, embriology, basic nursery and medical antropology.

My family has give to me all the help that I need to face this new stage in the university, they buys to me the medical books that I need and also I received the congratulations every time I got a good mark in a evaluation.

In my limited free time at the university, I played table tenis with my friends and was very entertaining.

Summarizing, this first semester was great and I have back with all the energy to face these news challenges in my university life, and I hope that the friends wich I made here I get keep them for a long time...

A talk About Education

What is understood and applied as education today is far from encouraging the creativity and innovation of students. Subjects such as mathematics or science such as physics and chemistry have become so boring and methodical, that we are hated by most students. I am not opposed to mathematical formulas, nor disregard the existing knowledge in the field of science. Quite the contrary. For that true education is carried out successfully for the student, it must have a solid base of knowledge and reasoning. But when it acquires and masters, here comes the problem. Most educational establishments remains there. We have a clear example with what happens in one quarter in half the schools. When leaving, if we want to enter a prestigious university, we must give the PSU, which is not measured at all the intelligence nor the ability to apply their knowledge into something practical, only subject to orders according to their ability to handle concepts in various areas of knowledge, but not implemented.

The saddest thing is that following this educational model that is imposed now, will reach a point in the life of someone who is well educated, they will be afraid to make mistakes and will prefer to adopt mathematical formulas and models already set, losing their imagination and their desire to innovate.

The intelligence is not only know formulas, namely the capital cities or to understand the physiological processes of the human body, but that knowledge is knowing how to process and make it available to people, daring to innovate for the sake of humanity and this a better world.