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¡Un ‘Sea Squirt’ de Ibiza mata al Covid! Comienzan los ensayos finales de la fase 3

info del San Francisco Chronicle, el journal Science…compartido con agradecimiento. traducción thefreeonline

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El mundo sueña con acabar con el coronavirus. Los países luchan por inmunizar a sus poblaciones para que se despierten de una pesadilla que comenzó hace aproximadamente un año. Todos los días, millones de dosis de las vacunas inciertas se vacían en los brazos de todo el planeta. Sin embargo, otra posible solución acecha bajo la superficie.

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Biólogos de Pharmamar recolectando Aplidium Albicans cerca de Ibiza

“El COVID es como si necesitara una fotocopiadora para extenderse y la plitidepsina (Apladin) lo desenchufa”

En las aguas que rodean la isla de Ibiza vive un pequeño invertebrado llamado Aplidium albicans. Este organismo forma parte de la familia de las ascidias, una criatura que pasa sus días inmóvil, pegada a una roca, mientras filtra el agua para conseguir alimento. Ejemplar en el que se podría encontrar una cura para el coronavirus.

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A Sea Squirt from Ibiza kills Covid! Final phase 3 trials to begin

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The world dreams of putting an end to the coronavirus. Countries are scrambling to immunize their populations to wake up from a nightmare that began about a year ago. Every day, millions of uncertain vaccine doses are emptied into the arms of the entire planet. Yet another possible solution lurks beneath the surface.

Biologists from Pharmamar harvesting Aplidium Albicans near Ibiza

“COVID is as if it needs a copier to spread itself and plitidepsin unplugs it”

In the waters that surround the island of Ibiza lives a small invertebrate called Aplidium albicans. This organism is part of the family of sea squirts, a creature that spends its days immobile, stuck to a rock, while it filters the water to get food. Specimen in which a cure for coronavirus could be found.

And it is that from Aplidium albicans that plitidepsin is extracted, the active principle on which Aplidin is based, manufactured by the Spanish company Pharmamar. This antitumor drug could be highly effective in fighting the pandemic.

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Honduras: Keyla murdered in Police HQ. 321 Femicides in 2020. Toxic state impunity in US backed Regime. Eng/Esp

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Honduras. Prosecutor confirms that the young nursing student Keyla Martínez was murdered at the police headquarters
The death by strangulation of Keyla in police stations has caused protests in the country and internationally

Honduras State Femicide
Four women murdered in recent days
By Giorgio Trucchi Posted on Feb 11, 2021

We have already said it and we do not tire of doing it: in Honduras the true pandemics are those of femicides and impunity.

On the night of February 6, Keyla Martínez, a young 26-year-old nursing student, was arrested in the city of La Esperanza for violating the curfew imposed by the Hernández government as a measure to combat the Covid pandemic. 19.

At approximately 11:30 at night she was arrested for being out after Covid curfew, taken to the Departmental Unit of the Police of this city and locked in a cell. A few hours later, Keyla’s lifeless body was admitted to the departmental hospital emergency room.

According to the Police, the young woman would have committed suicide by hanging herself from the bars of the cell. A thesis already discarded by the autopsy that reflected that the death of the young woman was due to mechanical asphyxia, which shows that she was murdered.

After knowing the result of forensic medicine, the Prosecutor’s Office issued instructions to the police authorities so that all the agents assigned to the police post be placed under the orders of the Public Ministry.

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Turkish President Erdogan demands rejection of homosexuality after arresting LGBT activists Eng/Esp

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His Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu called the detained students “LGBT perverts

The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on Monday called on the youth of his country to reject homosexuality, while a controversy rages over the arrest of four students accused of insulting Islam with LGBT symbols at Bogazici University in Istanbul.

“Our youth is not an LGBT youth,” Erdogan exclaimed during a virtual meeting with the youth branch of his party, the Islamist Justice and Development (AKP), which has ruled Turkey since 2002.

“You are a youth with computers and keyboards, you are not LGBT. You are not a youth that spreads the plague; on the contrary, you are a youth that lifts up broken or fallen hearts; I trust you ”, added the president.

“LGBT perverts”

Erdogan’s comments lead to a controversy unleashed last week, when police detained five students at Bogaziçi University in Istanbul, accusing them of insulting Islam for having placed an image of the Caaba on the ground during an art exhibition in the gardens of the institution.

The controversial work showed the sacred complex of Mecca, with an image of a popular being from Anatolian mythology, half woman and half serpent, in the place of the Kaaba, and adding a rainbow flag in one corner.

Turkish President Erdogan says there is ‘no such thing as LGBT’

Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu announced the arrests on Saturday, branding the students as “LGBT perverts,” and on the same day, two were admitted to pre-trial detention on charges of “hate speech,” while two others are under arrest. domiciliary, reports the newspaper Diken.

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People may change official gender without medical checks: draft law by Spain’s Equality Ministry

by Pilar Álvarez English version by Melissa Kitson at elpais.com

The proposals from left-wing Unidas Podemos (United We Can) have been met with criticism from some women’s groups and have sparked tensions with their partner in the coalition government, the ‘Socialist’ Party PSOE

Spain’s Equality Ministry has prepared a draft bill that would allow transgender people to officially change their gender with the Spanish authorities and on their ID document, known in Spain as the DNI, without a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria.

Equality Minister Irene Montero,Juan Carlos Hidalgo / EFE LGBTQ+ Rights

Under the planned legislation, titled the “law for real and effective equality for trans people,” an individual aged 16 or over would be able to change their name and gender in the civil registry with a sworn statement – no medical check would be required. Sixteen is also the minimum age from which a person can make decisions about hormone treatments.

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