Highlights

Event

Reaping the benefits

Landmarks and new targets for scientific research are announced

Opinion

A common asset for all men

A clearheaded policy built São Paulo leadership in Brazilian research

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Physics

On the Graviton wave

Brazil joins the race to capture gravitational waves from the Cosmos

biochemistry

Microscope maps channels on living cells

Device paves the way for more efficient medications

medicines

Bovine gene yields medications

Studies on the fibroblast growth factor (FGF) suggest therapeutic potential

Epidemiology

Healthy Math

Simple mathematical tools and statistics help prevent and control epidemics

Genetics

Mystery among rodents

Apparently identical species differ in the number of chromosomes

Genomic

Orestes deciphers the drosophila (fruit fly)

Discovered 91 genes of the model insect thanks to a Brazilian technique

Ecology

A method for measuring shade

Survey looks into five species of tree planted in urban areas

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Medicine

X-rays controlled at a distance

System reduces the costs and the exposureof patients to radiation

Public health

Pozzolanas: the map of the mine

A survey locates precious rocks for the cement industry

LIVESTOCK

Young, good-looking and with the weight of a bull

The Superprecocious Yearling guarantees soft meat and profit

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Physics

Conductor polymers under control

Brazilians dominate the new area of materials technology

nanotechnology

Molecular architects

Research produces compounds such as a sensor for the conserving of wines

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Genomics

In contact with the doctors

New project faces new forms of therapy and diagnosis of cancer