Highlights

UFRJ – 100 YEARS

Masters of challenge

COPPE, an engineering institute best known for its marine engineering, energy, and sustainability research, is now helping to tackle COVID-19

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UFRJ – 100 YEARS

Strengths in life sciences

From basic to applied research, UFRJ has produced cutting-edge science across different fields

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UFRJ – 100 Years

A century-long heritage

The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro has reached its 100th anniversary as one of the most productive institutions in Brazil

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The distance between dental research and treatment

The pandemic focuses attention on the debate regarding scientific production and dental care in the public healthcare system

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Scientific philanthropy boost

Pandemic drives donations from companies and individuals wishing to support COVID-19 research in Brazil

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The uncertainty of herd immunity

With a lack of scientific consensus on the subject, experts warn that protection measures against COVID-19 must be maintained

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Potential treatment

With no effective antiviral therapy, COVID-19 management for the time being consists of reducing inflammation and preventing blood clots

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The effects of COVID-19

The novel coronavirus can affect the lungs, heart, kidneys, pancreas, and brain, causing long-term damage after the acute phase of the disease has passed

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COVID-19

Seismographs used to measure social distancing

Due to the social distancing measures adopted to contain the pandemic, seismographs in large cities registered a significant reduction in the waves generated by ground movement

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The content of fake news

Scientific institutions have created websites to combat fake news

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Intranasal coronavirus vaccine

Two international studies have suggested that COVID-19 aerosol vaccine candidates, administered intranasally, offer protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection in animals

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Mutation makes COVID-19 less serious

A mutation that erased a stretch of DNA from two SARS-CoV-2 genes appears to make the symptoms of COVID-19 less aggressive

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High levels of asymptomatic infection in children

Clinical data suggest that although children and young adults tend to develop milder symptoms of COVID-19, they can be silent spreaders of the disease

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Paleontology

The dinosaur with cancer

An herbivorous dinosaur that lived about 76 million years ago in what is now the province of Alberta in western Canada had highly aggressive bone cancer in its right hind leg

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Archaeology

Inca offerings in Lake Titicaca

A stone box made of volcanic rock found at the bottom of Lake Titicaca is helping archaeologists to better understand the religious beliefs and practices of the ancient Incan Empire

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