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ENVIRONMENT

Scars of occupation

Satellite map of the Northeast depicts the devastation of the caatinga

GENOMICS

Three new attack routes against the pest

Article compares the genomes of bacteria and shows how to avoid citric canker

By Simone Biehler Mateos

EPIDEMIOLOGY

The bacteria of modern life

Infestation by bacteria is changing and brings public health problems

Medicine

Identities revealed

Progress in the fight to reduce false diagnoses of Chagas's disease

Zootechny

The unexpected bull

The first Brazilian clone from a fetus somatic cell is born

Syndrome

The first map of Down

Team relates genetic origins to the manifestations of the syndrome

Genetics

More 19 genes

Discovered new components of the chromosome responsible for Down

PSYCHIATRY

Cards on the table

Prizewinning thesis defines personality of pathological gamblers

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

Dialogs with water

Molecules that change their behavior enable to model new substances

By Francisco Bicudo

Physics

The high relief of memory

Team clarifies an essential phenomenon in computers

Fusion

Delicate relationship

More and more often scientists are making use of art in their analysis

Anthropology

In the footsteps of Macunaíma

Researchers retrace the folklore research mission through the North and Northeast

Urbanism

The new land of mist that the economy invented

Project maps out the changes in São Paulo brought about by globalization

Archive

School Memories

Project organizes a data bank to archive public policies in education

Biodiversity

Actions against biopiracy

WIPO studies how to protect cultures and genetic resources

By Claudia Izique

Report

Genomics for health

WHO predicts advances in the fight against morbid and genetic diseases

FAPs

State indicators

Foundations will take part in the National System for Information in S&T

Worker’s Health

Underdiagnosis jeopardizes public policies

Project will quantify real incidence work accidents in Piracicaba

NEW MATERIAL

Much more than simple glass

Vitreous material can be used in telescopes and artificial bones

By Yuri Vasconcelos

ENGINEERING

Tiny and notable

National Synchrotron Light Laboratory develops micro parts with wide use

By Marcos de Oliveira

Metallurgy engineering

Controlled noise

Steel sheets and polymer form plates that absorb the vibrations of motors

By Dinorah Ereno

computing

Creation without limits

Software incorporates special effects into video systems

Agronomy industry

Environmental and energy gains

Project of mini mills proposes total integration around alcohol production

yeast

Wealth in the mill’s leftovers

Companies develop edible products from the residues of alcohol production

By Revisor and Redação

Agronomy

Land without fire

In Pará, the stubble is ground up and becomes a fertilizer

Retrospect

By Neldson Marcolin

Cover

The profile of Brazilian political parties

Political parties profile is consistent

By Claudia Izique

Letter from the editor | 75

Genetics

By Marcos Pivetta

biology