Highlights
Cover
Variations on a suffocating theme
Asthma may be a group of illnesses instead of just one
By Ricardo Zorzetto and Mariluce Moura
Dissemination
The museum goes to school
USP project takes a biology and physics exhibition to the public school
Microbiology
The artisans of ethanol
Discoveries encourage research into expanding alcohol productivity
Ecology
Overly close neighbors
Living close to human beings exposes the brown monkey to yellow fever
Homage
The scientist’s art
João Camargo created Brazil's most outstanding collection of stingless bees
New materials
Eclectic diamond
Synthetic product used in drill bits to drill into the bottom of the sea