Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) was an American biochemist and writer who excelled strongly in the genre of scientific disclosure and mainly in science fiction. He earned his bachelor's degree from Columbia University (1939) and over the years taught biochemistry at Boston University's medical school.
Throughout his life he was always interested in the science fiction and which was quite successful, within what stands out from his work is the book "I, robot" (1950) that in 2004 the film was released, there is also "The Foundation Series", a set of 16 books that outline the history of the future. Also he had good works in the area of disclosure such as "Brief history of chemistry" in 1965 or "The Universe. From the flat Earth to quasars" in 1971.
In itself I like and admire Isaac because science and literature go very well hand in hand and the genre that I like the most is science fiction itself, so his work as a scientific disseminator and writer make him an ideal person to admire.

Free topic related to the career. A reflection on any aspect of it

Biochemistry, a career that many don't know, but few understand the true work of a scientist and the contribution they can make to society.
Unfortunately we´re in a society where knowing science is one more thing that a child should know in his or her school stage, but you are never given the meaning or the reason why this would help you in the morning to discriminate the information that is given to you and from there are born so-called anti-vaccines or the terraplanists.
And therein is the dilemma between a poor education and very automated and on the other hand the work of an unknown biochemist, and in my opinion there has to be a change on both sides, change the education system to a much more didactic one and that scientists leave their comfort zone so they can spread science and not be so locked up in their lab, the important thing after all is to educate a society and that better than start from the little ones, who are mini scientists who are truth seekers.

A photograph. Its story.

Well I present to you my cat, the one that makes me the most beautiful days and I am always happy. He came to my house in April 2018 when he was only 2 months old. I went to pick him up at a vet near the university, he and his two sisters were abandoned , and persistently convinced my dad to be able to bring a cat, since I love them too much and I always wanted one, and well the next day after classes I went to the vet to take him away, he was very small and beautiful, so I loved him from the beginning, and I named it Shrodinger, a name more than anything ironic for a cat. And since then I have not separated from him, the photo is of a trip that I took with my family to Antuco and obviously I had to take it with me so it was a nice journey together with him, we passed through various parts of the south, we even visited my grandmother in Concepcion, place where Shrodinger loves to go, because the house is bigger and is free to run, he likes to go up and down stairs at high speed. And so we traveled this summer through various parts with my cat and we met the nature of the South.

Free Topic : "HTLV-1"

HTLV-1, or human T-cell lymphotropic virus, is a retrovirus which was the first to associate it with oncological diseases in humans. Its genetic material is made up of two single-chain RNA molecules with positive polarity. This virus mainly causes two diseases, a malignant hemopathy called adult T-cell leukemia / lymphoma (ATL), and it also develops a subacute myelopathy called tropical spastic paraparesis (TSP). This retrovirus can be transmitted through fluids that have live cells that contain the virus, since cell-to-cell contact is the most effective for infection, it can be transmitted like HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), for the blood, seminal and vaginal fluids, through lactation and childbirth. The target cells for infection are those of the immune system, being the preferential for HTLV-1 CD4 + T lymphocytes, causing in this a dysregulation of the immune system and thus cause the various diseases associated with this virus.