Guia Covid-19

Carlos Fioravanti

Retrospect

Perfecting the art of cachaça making

How a self-taught chemist helped to improve cachaça production techniques in the late eighteenth century

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Interview

Sérgio Pena: Under the skin

The Minas Gerais geneticist proves that, at the cellular level, Brazilians look the same

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RETROSPECT

The shadow of the white plague

Tuberculosis persists, even 100 years after its vaccine was invented

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INNOVATION

Start, fall down, get up, start over

This describes the lives of entrepreneurs facing continuous unforeseen events on the road to success

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Interview

Linamara Rizzo Battistella: In defense of movement

The physician who helped establish Brazil's policy on the rights of people with disabilities now fights to rehabilitate Covid-19 patients

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Retrospect

The discovery of insulin

The purification and pharmaceutical formulation of the hormone insulin, beginning 100 years ago, and its production in Brazil half a century ago, brought diabetes under control

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Interview

Jurandyr Ross: The three Brazils

The São Paulo geographer proposes an overview of the country’s different environmental, social, and economic realities

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Retrospect

Open pathways to the first vaccine

The techniques and concepts used to eradicate smallpox in Brazil 50 years ago are still applied today to contain epidemics

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Butantan – 120 Years

Constant metamorphosis

Scientific discoveries call attention to quality control in the production of serums and vaccines

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Geology

Coastal mountains moving

Subject to constant erosion, they are slowly advancing inland, and within a few million years could form a vast coastal plain

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Teaching

Opening up the world of science

Teachers explain how they use Pesquisa FAPESP in the classroom

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Butantan – 120 years

Among venoms, not just from snakes

Researchers investigate the action and possible uses of toxins

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Butantan – 120 years

Renewed momentum

The São Paulo institute strengthened itself, mobilized competencies, and integrated teams to face the pandemic

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INTERVIEW

Dimas Covas: The trajectory of Butantan

The hematologist from USP readies the São Paulo institute to fight the pandemic and has plans to transform it into one of the world’s top producers of vaccines and serums

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RETROSPECT

The beginnings of pediatrics

In the late nineteenth century, Rio de Janeiro doctors worked together to reduce child mortality rates

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COVID-19

Approval strategy

Amid uncertainty, São Paulo announces state vaccination plan

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COVID-19

Welcome voices

Pandemic leads to greater communication between doctors, scientists, and the general public

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Geology

Gas from an ancient sea

Methane released by a saline lake may have caused a rise in temperature leading to the diversification of life forms on the planet

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INTERVIEW

Naomar Monteiro de Almeida Filho: Diseases as complex objects

Epidemiologist warns that the pandemic cannot be described solely through the virus or the infection caused by it

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Memory

The chemist of evolution

Otto Gottlieb associated the structural complexity of substances with the development plants and their environment

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Ecology

Defenders of São Paulo’s savannahs and forests

Research teams from the Forest Institute propose new uses for Brazilian wood species and innovative strategies for protecting native vegetation

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Interview

Luiz Davidovich: Towards a more interactive education

President of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and professor at the UFRJ Physics Institute questions compartmentalization at universities

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UFRJ – 100 Years

A century-long heritage

The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro has reached its 100th anniversary as one of the most productive institutions in Brazil

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Retrospect

War on the plague

Doctors and public authorities acted quickly against a bubonic plague outbreak in Santos in 1899

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Cover

Health professionals under emotional stress

Depression rates for health professionals who care for COVID-19 patients have tripled

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A difficult return

Brazil seeks health and education parameters for planning the resumption of in-person classes in its school systems

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COVER

Standing alone

Brazilian vaccine projects race to begin clinical trials next year

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COVER

Saving time

Brazilian research centers negotiate deals to import vaccine production technology

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Predicting the course of epidemics

Mathematical modeling of infectious disease, a science perfected over the last 250 years, is helping guide the COVID-19 response through uncertainties

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Retrospect

At the atom’s core

Born 100 years ago this year, theoretical physicist Jayme Tiomno studied particle interactions in the atom’s nucleus

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