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MEDICINE
The relief from salt
Accumulation of liquid in the pulmonary membranes combated by Silver nitrate
Interview
Jorge Wagensberg: Inside the skin of the scientist
For the director of the innovative Barcelona Science Museum it is essential to awaken scientific emotion without losing a grip on reality
Visual Arts
Shocking Pink Color
Exhibition in the Art Museum and a thesis shed light on women artists
Communication
The body as fiction
Post doctoral on corporal anthropology is carried out in the form of a website
industry
Promising beginning
Competitiveness Forum is going to structure national policy for biotechnology
innovation
Correction to course
Debate highlights the role of companies in the generation of technologies
New Materials
A fiber for all handiwork
Dry Curauá leaves have wide use; from car parts to clothes and medicines
Cover
Narcissus the wrong way round
Excessive concern with the body may lead to bulimia and anorexia
By Marili Ribeiro and Ricardo Zorzetto
molecular biology
Encyclopedia of genomics
A 1,200 page work is a landmark on genomic
physics
The physicist of biology
Francis Crick explored to the maximum the freedom for doing science
environment
Fire against fire
Controlled burning in the Amazon seeks to understand impact on fauna and flora
Gilberto De Nucci
Gilberto De Nucci: The medicine radical
The medicine radical
By Marcos Pivetta and Ricardo Zorzetto
Antropology
The invention of indolence
Thesis denounces the racism built into the myth of sloth in the state of Bahia