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computerization

On-line accounts

FAPESP widens the communication network with researchers

health

Combat front against tuberculosis

Network-TB brings together experts in search of tests to identify tuberculosis

Optics

A laser gun against cancer

A clinical study for the dissemination of Photo Dynamic Therapy (PDT)

By Marcos de Oliveira

materials engineering

More competitive plastics

Partnership produces high resistance polypropylene and easy to recycle

Computing

Challenges for the future

IBM develops a chip that gives new life to the silicon chip

By Tania Marques

Biomedical engineering

Proven efficiency

Equipment uses birds retina to test medicines with neurological action

chemistry

Less pollution

Nanocatalyst created in UFRGS eliminates aromatic compounds from petroleum

Electronic engineering

Innovative technical assistance

Equipment speedily detects problems and repairs modules in switching centers

engineering

Organic with a green seal

Laboratory prepare certification of foods produced without use of chemicals

environment

An island’s lost ice

Map shows shrinking glaciers on King George Island

astrophysics

Pulsating Sun

Variation in the diameter of the sun is smaler than used to be believed

By Francisco Bicudo

personality

A complete physicist

Dead at 96, Bernhard Gross coupled theory and practice with rare brilliance

Cattle

A sure shot

Vaccine ensures that only animals infected with disease be slaughtered

Genomics

The map of the paper tree

New eucalyptus genes drives the search for increased productivity

Medicine

The vaccine that protects the heart

Ambitious project begins to combat rheumatic fever

By Adilson Augusto

Chemical messengers

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a star of world medicine, a pioneer in the important areas of the physiology of the heart, the nervous system and the digestive system. He had enormous influence on the development of behavioral theories and psychology, by carrying out his famous... View Article

By Neldson Marcolin

Cover

Malaria and some new diseases

São Paulo scientists make Rondonia a post for high social impact research

By Marcos Pivetta

Letter from the editor | 73

Carlos Alfredo Joly and Vanderlei Perez Canhos:In favor of the environment

Amongst 142 countries, Brazil achieved a prominent position in the recently announced Environmental Sustainability Index. But the coordinators of FAPESP's Biota program warn: there is still plenty of room to be conquered in the international scena

By Mariluce Moura - Diretora de Redação

Visual Arts

Movement in bronze

Research analyses the sculpture collection of Edgar Degas

History

History made of paper

Projects throw light on the documents guarded in the Deops/SP from 1940 to 1983

Diplomacy

The Quixotic liberal of the Republic

Book recovers the ideas of Oliveira Lima, the pioneer of nationality

anthropology

Capitalism with a Brazilian face

A study reveals the idiosyncrasies of the national administration of companies

By Maria Inês Nassif

cooperation

Strategic Partnerships

An agreement will improve the traffic exchange points on the Internet

venture capital

Prospecting for good business

Votorantim Ventures invests in biotechnology companies

biotechnology

A market in expansion

Biominas finds that 51% of companies has no more than seven years

biosecurity

Reinforcement for CTNBio

Specialist to make up team that assesses transgenics

Scientific publications

SciELO, an acclaimed model

Virtual library expands visibility of Brazilian science

computing

Programs of the right size

Three companies from PIPE develop software projects