Highlights

funding

Investments in the forest

The Bank of Amazonia invests into research for expanding the regional market

scientific magazines

Free access at no charge

Scientists found virtual publishing house and plan to launch electronic titles

Robotics

Intelligence and pilotless

An autonomous airship is under development at the CenPRA

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Computing

Company of talents

A new system builds software adapted to each customer

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sanitation

Cleansing reactors

New equipments are prepared for the treatment of effluents

veterinary medicine

Thick shell

Vaccine protects birds from bacteria that causes fragility in their eggs

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Forest engineering

Rapid and economic drying

Researcher from Embrapa develops method for treating wood

Retrospect

A very small universe

70 years ago, Ernst Ruska created the electron microscope in Germany

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biology

The limits of the sea

Survey maps the excessive exploitation of fishing resources in Brazil

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Ecology

The land of the birds

Eight species of birds that only live between the Xingu and Tapajós rivers

bioinformatics

The dance of the genes

Mathematical model defines the limit for alterations and evolutions of genomes

Genomics

Revelation in details

Genes may help in the fight against the bacterium that causes yellowing disease

Genetics

Strengthened defense

Sugarcane protein may help to hold back the advance of human diseases

psychiatry

Greater risk

Variation in a gene may aggravate mental illnesses

Medicine

Insulin from the liver

Team implant cells and create an alternative to pancreas transplants

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