{"id":1737,"date":"2025-03-05T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hispanagar.com\/blog\/la-mujer-que-revoluciono-la-microbiologia\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T16:05:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T14:05:29","slug":"la-mujer-que-revoluciono-la-microbiologia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hispanagar.com\/en\/life-sciences\/la-mujer-que-revoluciono-la-microbiologia\/","title":{"rendered":"La mujer que revolucion\u00f3 la microbiolog\u00eda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span>\u00bfSab\u00edas que la pionera del agar en microbiolog\u00eda fue una mujer? En este D\u00eda Internacional de la Mujer, recordamos el descubrimiento de Fanny Angelina Hesse.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span>Fanny naci\u00f3 en 1850 y contrajo matrimonio con Walter Hesse, un doctor alem\u00e1n, en 1874. Poco despu\u00e9s de su matrimonio, Walther comenz\u00f3 a trabajar en el laboratorio de Robert Koch (conocido despu\u00e9s como el adre de la microbiolog\u00eda y ganador del premio Nobel de Medicina por identificar el bacilo de la tuberculosis). <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span>A Fanny le interesaba la investigaci\u00f3n y comenz\u00f3 a ayudar a su marido con su trabajo, ilustrando sus proyectos. Sus ilustraciones de colonias de bacterias en diferentes etapas de crecimiento mostraban un obvio conocimiento de bacteriolog\u00eda y microscop\u00eda, que hab\u00eda ido adquiriendo con el paso de los a\u00f1os. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span>Debido a la \u00e9poca, Fanny se ve\u00eda obligada a combinar este rol de asistente con el de ama de casa, por lo que era responsable de las tareas del hogar, incluida la cocina. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span>Uno de los primeros proyectos de Walther fue aislar microbios del aire. El medio de cultivo usado para esta investigaci\u00f3n era la gelatina, pero esto causaba grandes inconvenientes. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span>Cuando Walther le cont\u00f3 a Fanny su problema, ella pens\u00f3 que la soluci\u00f3n pod\u00eda estar dentro de su cocina. Fanny naci\u00f3 en Nueva York y ten\u00eda vecinos que hab\u00edan vivido en Java, Indonesia. Ellos le hab\u00edan ense\u00f1ado un ingrediente usado en climas c\u00e1lidos para hacer texturas gelatinosas y como espesante para los caldos. Fanny llevaba a\u00f1os usando el agar en sus mermeladas y otros postres. Sabiendo sus propiedades, ella pens\u00f3 que ese extracto pod\u00eda solucionar el problema de Walther con sus medios de cultivo. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span>Walther prob\u00f3 el agar, descubri\u00f3 sus beneficios e inmediatamente, inform\u00f3 a Koch. As\u00ed fue como empez\u00f3 a usar el agar como medio de cultivo y en 1882 pudo demostrar que la tuberculosis era causada por una bacteria. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span>Debido al conocimiento intuitivo de Fanny Angelina Hesse, el agar hoy en d\u00eda se sigue usando como medio de cultivo y ha permitido grandes descubrimientos que son importantes para todos. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span>Gracias a Fanny y a muchas otras mujeres cient\u00edficas que allanaron el camino, hoy en d\u00eda celebramos el D\u00eda de la Mujer con muchas otras mujeres liderando proyectos de investigaci\u00f3n y recibiendo el m\u00e9rito que merecen. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Descubre la historia de Fanny Angelina Hesse, la mujer que revolucion\u00f3 la microbiolog\u00eda al introducir el agar como agente solidificante para medios de cultivo. Su aportaci\u00f3n sent\u00f3 las bases de la microbiolog\u00eda moderna y contin\u00faa impulsando los avances en investigaci\u00f3n, diagn\u00f3stico y salud p\u00fablica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-sciences"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>La mujer que revolucion\u00f3 la microbiolog\u00eda - Hispanagar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hispanagar.com\/en\/life-sciences\/la-mujer-que-revoluciono-la-microbiologia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"La mujer que revolucion\u00f3 la microbiolog\u00eda - Hispanagar\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Descubre la historia de Fanny Angelina Hesse, la mujer que revolucion\u00f3 la microbiolog\u00eda al introducir el agar como agente solidificante para medios de cultivo. 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