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Francisco Salzano: A geneticist of polemic opinions
Francisco Salzano recalls his work with the Indians, speaks about the concept of race and defends research with transgenics and stem cells.
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We and the monkeys
The Director of the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology researches what makes us different from the chimpanzee
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Angelita Habr-Gama: Victory in a mine field
MIGUEL BOYAYANThe medical doctor Angelita Habr-Gama has three personality traits common to successful professionals: perseverance, a huge capacity for work and contagious optimism. Together with these qualities is an enormous talent in her specialty, surgery of the digestive tract, which is sufficient to separate out professor Angelita from the role of the highly successful person... View Article
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Emilio Moran: A world in change
MIGUEL BOYAYANWhen he talks about global climatic changes, anthropologist Emilio Moran seems capable of catching the attention of even the most skeptical of the anti-environmentalists. Perhaps because, instead of only detaining himself on numbers – whether of animal and plant species in the process of extinction, or of more or less degrees Celsius of the... View Article
By Fabrício Marques and Mariluce Moura
José Sebastião Witter
José Sebastião Witter: A life in the classroom
A life in the classroom
Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Nelson Pereira dos Santos: An immortal filmmaker
Filmmaker Nelson Pereira dos Santos, director of the masterpiece Barren Lives, talks about his career and life
By Penha Rocha
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Gilberto Câmara: For a new space program
Gilberto Câmara, director-general of the Inpe, proposes a space program aimed at the national needs
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Antonio Paes de Carvalho: Stepping stones
MIGUEL BOYAYANThere is no exaggeration in describing him, 70 years old, as an obstinate man. Nor in regarding him as a visionary. After all, Antonio Paes de Carvalho offered proofs of obstinacy and of vision of the future when, 20 years ago, he idealized the first biotechnology complex in the country, facing the skepticism of... View Article
By Claudia Izique and Marcos de Oliveira
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Bernardo Galvão: The battle against Aids and other fights
The battle against Aids and other fights
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Elliot Kitajima: Images for Brazilian science
MIGUEL BOYAYANAn esthete against plant pathogens. This is how, perhaps in a reductionist way, one could describe the work of São Paulo researcher Elliot Kitajima, who for over four decades has dedicated himself to recording images in electron microscopy of agents that attack plants, in particular viruses. Born 69 years ago, from Japanese parents, in... View Article
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Miguel Nicolelis: The man of multiple connections
A worldwide point of reference in neuroscience, restless Miguel Nicolelis, a citizen of São Paulo who has been living for over 15 years in the United States, is getting ready to enjoy his first sabbatical year. It will be quite a year. And the program for the next few months is now ready. He is... View Article
Interview: Leôncio Martins
Interview: Leôncio Martins
"It is easy to be ethical in the opposition"
By Carlos Haag
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José Murilo de Carvalho: An antidote against republican brutalization
An antidote against republican brutalization
By Carlos Haag
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Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa: The lively prose of a master scientist
Listening to 88-year-old Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa, one of the pioneers of genetic medicine in Brazil, it becomes easy to understand why his qualities as a professor are celebrated by researchers of several generations who have been amongst his pupils. If in the classroom he availed himself of a delicious, multicolored narrative, full of wit and always... View Article
Isaias Raw
Isaias Raw: A battling scientist
A battling scientist
By Claudia Izique and Neldson Marcolin
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Carlos Augusto Monteiro: From privation to excess of food
From privation to excess of food
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Mayana Zatz: One eye on reason, the other on the heart
One eye on reason, the other on the heart
By Mariluce Moura and Marcos Pivetta
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Jefferson Cardia Simões: The ice is ours as well
Researcher who has been at the South Pole says that Antarctica is more important for Brazil than for the USA
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Diógenes de Almeida Campos: Official stones and bones
Paleontologist affirms that Brazil could be as important as China and criticizes fossil contraband
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José Fernando Perez: A route of opening up to society
A route of opening up to society
By Mariluce Moura and Neldson Marcolin
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Ismail Xavier: Visions on stage
The critic and professor analyzes the dialog between the Brazilian cinema and the Nelson Rodrigues theater
By Mariluce Moura and Neldson Marcolin
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Ruth e Victor Nussenzweig: A chemistry that worked out
The couple talks about the advances in the search for vaccines against malaria and of the life of a scientist, here and in the United States
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Roberto Figueira Santos: Observations of an engaged spectator
Observations of an engaged spectator
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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
Gilberto De Nucci
Gilberto De Nucci: The medicine radical
The medicine radical
By Marcos Pivetta and Ricardo Zorzetto