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Anthropology

In the name of God

Project rescues the true relationship between missionaries and Native Indians

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Economy

The lobby goes up to the Presidential Palace

Studies reveal the relationship between the Powers and the pressure groups

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Music

This so-and-so samba

Academic world tries to understand the importance of Samba in the 20th century

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Investments

Mapping innovation

Third edition of FAPESP's Indicators registers increase in spending on S&T

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Telecommunications

The light partners

The KyaTera Project integrates dozens of laboratories by way of optical fibers

Inclusion

The multiplication of ideas

Network wants to spread useful technologies to poor communities

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Chanel No. 5

Rosewood perfume No.5 Brazil

Leaves from the Amazonian tree guarantees its production

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Forestry engineering

Finite stock in the Amazon

Two species of tree take more than a century to grow

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Cattle ranching

Better management, more profit

Project rehabilitates small rural producers

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Biotechnology

Cleaning crew

Fungi and bacteria form the basis of detergents used in hospital equipment

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Electrical Engineering

Digital farming

Company develops precision equipment for use in agriculture

New Materials

A different type of magnet

Graphite developed by a research team has magnetic properties

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Cover

Transgenics

Permission to market GMOs should expand investments in biotechnology

Retrospect

Among the stars

The work of César Lattes, who died at eighty years, was fundamental for the detection of the pi meson

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Cover

Biosafety

Law authorizes research with stem cells and marketing of transgenics

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Cover

Stem Cells

The Bill on Biosafety is going to boost Brazilian research

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Letter from the editor | 110

A law for life

A law for life

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Genetics

Molecular Signature

Method uses a small fragment of DNA to identify animal species

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Botany

The Beauty and the beast

Study reveals orchids and describes the damage caused by viruses and insects

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Physics

The hot and the cold that comes from magnets

A Unicamp team discovers unexpected properties of magnetic materials

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Medicine

Wide awake

Lack of sleep activates sexuality but is harmful to health

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Interview

Mayana Zatz: One eye on reason, the other on the heart

One eye on reason, the other on the heart

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Communication

The Ninth Art

Researches show that comic books still maintain their importance

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History

Doctors or monsters?

Slavery drove the development of tropical medicine

Government

Heterodox model

The university reform proposal changes bureaucratic structures

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Publication

Pasteur’s Quadrant

Book reviews pact between the scientific community and government

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Sensoring

Topography maps of Brazil

Images captured by Endeavour and produced by Embrapa show Brazilian topography

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Medicines

Valuable poisons

Studies with poisonous animals have resulted in the licensing of seven patents

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Medicines

From nature to the drugstore

An anti-inflammatory made from the extract of a plant

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Biomedical Engineering

Vital implant

Stent produced by laser is going to reduce the cost of cardiac therapies

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