Science

Genetics

A natural advantage against the cigarette

Almost 40% of Brazilian possess mutations that favor smoking less

Biochemistry

Form and function

New equipment place the country in the front line of the study of proteins

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physics

Another way of looking at atomic fusion

Experiment redefines knowledge concerning the interaction of nuclei

Physics

Versatile Minds

Physicists help to solve problems in different areas

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Genetics

One mutation, three diseases

Same alteration in a gene can cause three different pathologies

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genomic

Fertile deserts

Researcher identifies functional sequences of DNA in genome

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Botany

Plants that migrate

Trees from Cerrado are in the Atlantic Rain Forest and the Amazon Forest

MEDICINE

The relief from salt

Accumulation of liquid in the pulmonary membranes combated by Silver nitrate

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Agronomy

Of genes and dwarf plants

Genome provides clues on ratoon stunting disease in sugarcane

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

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environment

Forest guard

Inpe tests new satellites for fighting burning in the Amazon

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Ecology

Priorities of Minas Gerais

Areas of high biological wealth as a target for researches and conservation

physics

Ghost Action

Team from Campinas details phenomenon that makes quantum cryptography possible

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physiology

Dogma overturned

Researchers reduce loss of neurons in rats with damaged spinal cord

hematology

Effects of diversity

Intense miscegenation makes Brazil a fertile field for hereditary anemias

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geophysics

The heat that makes the ground tremble

Variations of the lithosphere clarify the origin of earthquakes in Brazil

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molecular biology

Filling in the gaps

Brazilians complete the sequencing of 211 human genes

Epidemiology

The virus spreaders

Identified the wild rodents that are spreading the viruses of hantavirus

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Physics

Fifth state of matter

Team believes it has created a Bose-Einstein Condensation

Ecology

The faces of the Amazon

Dry ground forests and waterlogged stretches behave differently

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Epidemiology

Ahead of the tropical challenges

Brazil keeps ahead in the research and prevention in tropical diseases

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Epidemiology

The Amazon against malaria

Tests corroborate the biological action of plants from the forest

virology

Subtle Change

A subtype of the Aids virus is spreading and altering the epidemic's profile

Genetics

The role of the forgotten

Stretches of RNA regulate the production of proteins linked to cancer

Medicine

Imaginary Remedies

Expectation and conditioning explain why a placebo sometimes works

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zoology

Witnesses of the primitive earth

Fixed jellyfishes form a new class of marine animals

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astrophysics

Lost in space

Brazilians discover four star nurseries outside the galaxies

biochemistry

Extra work

In the cells, crusher creates proteins that reduce the efficiency of vaccines

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