Marcos Pivetta
Pharmacology
Iron against tuberculosis
A metallic compound kills Koch’s bacillus with fewer side effects
Biosafety
The news from the East
South Koreans extract stem cells from a human embryo and reopen polemic
Interview
Mayana Zatz: One eye on reason, the other on the heart
One eye on reason, the other on the heart
PALEOBOTANY
The flora that came in from the cold
São Paulo shelters fossils of plants that grew alongside glaciers
Ecology
Investment in water
Petrobras invests in environmental preservation projects on the theme of water
Schistosoma mansoni
Inside the parasite
Identification of genes gains international prominence
agronomy
Water, sun and wine
Brazilian model classifies a hundred wine producing regions in 30 countries
Genomics
On the trail of a vaccine
Brazilians sequence the genome of the bacterium that causes leptospirosis
Cover
Portraits of nightfall
The elderly of São Paulo were manual laborers and have little schooling
Cover
Shadows over the forest
Clouds of smoke from forest clearing fires cool down the Amazon forest
citriculture
Risk of heart attack in the orange groves
Citrus sudden death threatens production and challenges researchers
Paleobotany
When pine trees were dwarfs
Fossils of old araucarias attest to the transition of this species
Cover
Jatoba against pollution
Tropical trees may clean the atmosphere if the greenhouse effects increase
John Vander Sande
John Vander Sande: Between two worlds
Director of a technology-based company and MIT professor came to Brazil to set out his ideas on entrepreneurism