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Phytotherapy

Beating naturally

Compound of medicinal plants stops arrhythmia

Genetics

Virus-based medicines

Production of vectors makes gene therapy advance

Epidemiology

State of alert

More aggressive subtypes of Aids virus advance in Brazil

BIOLOGY

Penta, the champion clone

Researchers from Unesp make a copy of an adult animal

paleontology

Torturous routes

Hominid fossil suggests that our historical evolution is more complex

astrophysics

Sidereal clock

Physicist shows how to use the brightness from pulsating white dwarf stars

Education

Very easygoing teachers

USP project uses escargots to teach children school disciplines

Divulgation

Converting Science&Technology into news

Ciência Hoje magazines completes 20 years of uninterrupted publication

Book

Benefit rewarded

Works that received FAPESP's support win 2002 Jabuti Award

investment

Science in Iberian America

Brazil to lead the first thematic network of the RICYT

human resources

IPT renews staff

Institute will do a public examination to fill vacancies

advanced internet

Program encourages cooperative production

Tidia is going to carry out projects like those on network technology

innovation

In search of the lost time

Anpei brings experts together to get to know investment strategies in R&D

FAPESP'S new President

A commitment with innovation

Carlos Vogt is going to preserve resources destined towards scholarships

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Chance and success

Chance and success

odontology

No fear of the drill

Diamond coated drills reduce the use of anesthetics in 70% of the cases

Agriculture

Natural combat on cultivated land

Fungi that are predators of worms can be mass produced

environmental engineering

Impurities Exterminator

Ozone generator born of partnership between a company and an ITA laboratory

Chemical engineering

Compatible with the body

Laboratory at UFMG synthesizes new generation of biomaterials

Genomics

Expanded territory

Harvest of concluded genomes includes new manners of combat

pharmacy

Freeing the arteries

Researchers discover in plasma a potent vasodilator

Ecology

Fish and taboos on the Negro river

The position of species in the food chain determines their consumption

botany

Threatened archipelago

Survey discovers the richness and the risks of the Cerrado islands

Music

The Files of Tom Jobim

The personal archive of Tom Jobim is being organized with the help of Faperj

Visual Arts

Vincent Van Gogh

A book analyzes the work of Vincent Van Gogh based on letters sent by him

History

Censorship

The repression of the press from colonial Brazil to the military dictatorship

commemoration

In the right tone

A present strengthens FAPESP's capacity for financing research

diffusion

The challenge of sharing

Cepids succeeds in bringing scientific knowledge home to society

environmental engineering

Impact of the wind and pollutants

The IPT builds a tunnel to study air movements in towns and in industrial areas

aviation

Embraer flying high

Embraer wants to develop tools that are going to facilitate its projects