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Yesterday, April 20, AmCham Bolivia in collaboration with Solydes Aceleradora, brought together startups with great potential to grow in the market. Among all the startups that participated, we would like to highlight the innovative proposal of our AmCham Junior member: José Antonio Bedregal. Bedregal presented his company, IPAX Studio, which offers an augmented reality platform …

The event 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙪𝙥 𝙉𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 & 𝙋𝙞𝙩𝙘𝙝’𝙨 𝘼𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙊𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙚 was a great success! Read More »

This is a sea slug (Elysya chrolotica), it feeds on algae (Vaucheria litorea) and partially digests them. Keeping the chloroplasts viable, it incorporates them into its digestive system and is able to photosynthesize. This makes it an autotrophic being! In other words, it synthesizes its own food with the incorporated plastids. Thanks to this strategy, …

The only animal that photosynthesizes Read More »

Las arapaimas (también llamadas pirarucúes) son peces de agua dulce que habitan los ríos y lagos de la cuenca Amazónica, donde han habitado durante millones de años, se les considera de los peces de río más antiguos, ya que existen fósiles de arapaimas de hasta 23 millones de años de edad. Estos peces destacan por …

ARAPAIMA, the giant, prehistoric fish of the Amazon Read More »

From the dried body of the female cochineal, karmic acid, a red dye, is obtained. Carmic red became a strong competitor for European dyes, as it was used to dye the clothes of kings, nobles and the clergy. It was even used to paint handicrafts and tapestries. As an export product, it was exported from …

The grana cochineal (Dactylopius coccus) is a parasitic insect of the prickly pear cactus. Read More »