Highlights

indicators

Limited innovation

Purchase of machinery and equipment is main investment by companies

Genomics

Science and business

Alellyx hires a twenty five more doctors and promises a product in two years

Mega Science

Network of life

Software permits the integration of data banks with biological information

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Hormone on the market

A partnership wants to produce a medicine against dwarfism

biomechanics

Details of movement

System assesses athletes and people with motor deficiency

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Forested Engineering

Tropicalized Christmas

Selection of coniferous species from Japan results in a more attractive tree

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Computing

Changes in sight

Hafnium oxide can replace silicon oxide in the production of chips

foods

From the freezing to the oven

Frozen bread may be a novelty in supermarkets and convenience stores

Optics

Calibrated light

Researchers from USP invent a methodology for measuring laser beams

Retrospect

Forty springs afterwards

The book that launched the modern environmental movement was published in 1962

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S&T Policy

Good Job

Californian children write letters to Brazilian scientists

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The target is human health

The first genetic vaccine against tuberculosis is being tested on human

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Epidemiology

The bases of malaria

Sequencing the genomes of malaria stimulates research into new drugs

Genetics

Fatal mutations

The action of genes responsible for malformation of the head is detailed

Medicine

Magnetic drugs

Research into iron-based compounds capable of treating cancer