Highlights

foreign

Effects of September 11

Redoubled security in the USA because of terror affects research in Brazil

electronic library

Changes under way

Capes incorporates ProBE and FAPESP studies alterations to the program

research

Technology and the trade balance

Research analyses imports and exports of technology services

ethics

A sensitive question

Scientific publications look for ways of dealing with conflicts of interest

medicine

Far-Manguinhos exports knowledge

Institute wants to transfer anti-retroviral production technology to Angola

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Cover

Molecular alarm

Enzyme behaves as a biological marker for hypertension

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biology

Ready to use

The first GM mice made in Brazil are born

Neurology

Defect in production

Study detects chromosomal variation far higher than expected in neurons

public health

Fewer deaths from the air

Drop atmospheric pollution rate improves public health in metropolises

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Botany

The sweet seeds of the Cerrado (Wooded Savanna)

Carbohydrates in the vegetables can conservate the ecosystem

astrophysics

Where can life be?

The evolution of the Milky Way and formation of the terrestrial planets

physics

The proton in transformation

A study demonstrates how an accelerated particle can originate others

Interview

Willi Bolle: Guimarães Rosa – Portrait of the soul of Brazil

Eduardo CesarDeeply involved in developing the text of his project, which will provide an original view of Grande Sertão: Veredas (The Great Backcountry: Byways), by Guimarães Rosa, relating to the portraits of Brazil, professor Willi Bolle tells the Pesquisa FAPESP some of the story of his life and his studies, which have led him to hide out... View Article

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Retrospect

The aeronautics pioneer

120 years ago Júlio César Ribeiro de Souza discovered how to steer balloons

Interview

Guilherme Ary Plonski: Strategic change

To create dynamism, this is the principal mission of the new director of the IPT

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