Highlights

Cell biology

A versatile parasite

Protozoan that causes malaria develops on the skin

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Genetics

Constructing a discovery

Stem cells opens up the way for new research for therapies against disease

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Memory

Advance under the sea

Forty years ago the P-1 was built, the first moveable Brazilian oil drilling rig

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Cover

At the root of Alzheimer’s

The region in the brain where Alzheimer's lesions first appear is identified

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Nobel

The chorus of the excluded

The organization adds another name to the gallery of those who feel forgotten

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Nobel

The 2008 harvest

Scientific prizes are divided by researchers

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Funding

United States

Research foundations are working to create a network for investigating malaria

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Universities

Reinforcing public education

Distance teaching to guarantee university education for teachers

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Diffusion

Medals in their bags

Brazilian teams reap rewards in the international scientific Olympiad

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Political science

With one eye on the fish and another on the cat

Brazilian mistrust of democratic institutions

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Art

Paranoia or mystification

Aleijadinho, if he existed, served many ideologies

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Sociology

Snapshots of knowledge

Photography is an additional badly used resource in social sciences

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Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Fernando Henrique Cardoso: No leniency for deforestation

Society cannot be lenient toward environmental damage

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Memory

Chasing the barber bug (T. cruzi)

Emmanuel Dias prepared the earliest campaigns to eradicate Chagas Disease in Brazil

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Dieter Muehe

Dieter Muehe: Don’t forget the sea

Geographer says that it is crucial to monitor the coast and the ocean to find out what is actually going to change in terms of the climate

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