Fabrício Marques
Laboratories
Fragmented efforts
Brazil’s research infrastructure has benefited from recent investment
INNOVATION
A network to study emotions
Research center will integrate knowledge to promote well-being
Partnership
Complementary Expertise
Specialists in mosquito olfaction and immunity launch a cooperative network
SOCIETY
Support for science
People in São Paulo admire scientists and support investment in research
Cover
Death explains life
Platform for corpse studies will advance disease diagnosis and understanding
Scientific production
In quest of greater impact
SciELO releases guidelines to internationalize its collection of journals
Communication and Arts
An Historical Reference Point
Salles Gomes is still a prominent figure in the university’s history
By Eduardo Nunomura and Fabrício Marques
Promotion
Sophisticated support
Offices free researchers from bureaucratic red tape and offer new services
Scientometrics
Innovative calculations
Paper describes methodology used to evaluate Biota-FAPESP Program
Research integrity
From Commitment to Action
Ways to effectively promote a culture of honesty among researchers
DEVELOPMENT
Impressive progress
Software, I. T. and communications companies in São Paulo are growing
Internet
Retweet or perish
Twitter is the most widely used social network for spreading scientific papers
Experimentation
Alternative methods
Effort to replace the use of animals in testing is beginning to pay off
Internationalization
Dialogue in Beijing
FAPESP Week seeks broader collaboration between São Paulo and China
Infrastructure
Transparent Science
Researchers increasingly asked to store data in public repositories
Drugs
Promising structures
Database of chemical compounds from Brazilian biodiversity gains recognition
I. T.
Science in a haystack
Program tries to extract new knowledge in the midst of huge volumes of data