Science

Medicine

Cells with a thousand faces

Cell therapy treat autoimmune diseases and lesions in the brain

immunology

Mycosis from the earth

Research advance to fight a fungus typical of South America

Biochemistry

Vital protection

Pocket allows the causer of malaria to live in the inside of blood cells

Ecology

Life and death on the sand

Biologists from Rio assess the degree of destruction of 17 restingas

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botany

The forgotten palm trees

The English find samples of palm trees from 155 years ago

agronomy

Water, sun and wine

Brazilian model classifies a hundred wine producing regions in 30 countries

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cosmology

Cosmic sneezes

Astrophysicists describe evolution of jets of gas 10 light-years in length

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Advanced Internet

Virtual opportunity

Program select infrastructure of the network and distance learning projects

Biology

Special reserve

Team discover a network of tubes that store calcium in the nucleus of cells

Genomics

On the trail of a vaccine

Brazilians sequence the genome of the bacterium that causes leptospirosis

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dermatology

Under the skin

Beauty creams stimulate more brain regions in women with sensitive skin

environment

Rich and tragic

Only 2.4% of the natural vegetation of the Minas Gerais Triangle remain

Ecology

Inverted flow

Tapajós National Forest now liberates more carbon dioxide gas than it absorbs

Physics

The force of vacuum

Team discovers the limits to the use of the Schrödinger wave equation

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physicochemical

Simplified disorder

Team develops a method that facilitates the calculation of entropy

Geology

The glaciers turned into backlands

The landscape of the future northeast of Brazil was dominated by ice

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Ecology

Tables turned

Contamination of rivers by oil threatens above all fish with aerial respiration

biochemistry

Long range vision

Discoveries on protein make agreement with multinational feasible

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biophysics

Folding molecules

Simulations make it possible to foresee the structure of proteins

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Genetics

The silence of the genes

Technique deactivates stretches of DNA and blocks production of protein in bees

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Physics

The genesis of DNA

Mathematical model describes what made life possible on Earth

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Nanotechnology

Atoms for doing calculations

Brazilian physicists in the worldwide race in search of the quantum computer

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physiology

Short of breath

Researchers calculate the capacity of sedentary carrying out physical activity

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Genetics

The glass and lipstick

Alteration in a gene may make women 2.6 times more susceptible to alcoholism

archeology

The land of Luzia

Map covers 100 prehistoric sites from the Lagoa Santa region of Minas Gerais

Botany

Mountain flowers

Collection describes the 1.067 species of plants in Grão-Mogol

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Epidemiology

The pressure of modern life

Urbanization upsets health of the inhabitants of the interior of the Amazonia

Genomics

Proof of kinship

Lineage of Xylella that attacks grapes looks like the one that infects oranges

Astrophysics

Lights from the past

Projects register temperature that show the Universe 13 billion years ago

Nanotechnology

The Ideal Shape

Researchers show carbon nanotubes that slide almost without friction

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