Highlights

Medicine

A new look at asthma

Research open up prospects for a method of prevention and treatment

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immunology

Back to the battle

Vitamin C recovers the mobility of blood defense cells

Genomics

Safer biotechnology

Genetic modification technique enables GM products with less environmental risk

environment

Accurate Vision

Method lowers the cost of mapping and classifying vegetation in the Pantanal

Biology

Life among crabs

Project changes the standards of management of crustacean

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innovation

In Brazil, do as the Brazilians do

Investments in R&D outstrip the national average

post-graduation

Expansion Continues

FAPESP continues expanding its investment in scholarships

mineralogy

Minerals discovered in Brazil

Mineralogy errors accumulated over centuries are corrected

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physics

Goodbye, Certainty

Established concepts about the Universe and the origin of life are shaken

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conference

Paths and horizons to advance on

Meeting proposes strategies for the scientific and technological development

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Cover

The basis of the difference

Study on a mutation goes on the cover of Cancer Research

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semiotic

Between Plato and Hot Dogs

Complexity of hypermedia generates a reader with distinct abilities

Music

Magda Tagliaferro

A book tells the Magdalena Tagliaferro's history and career

History

Censored, made the headlines

Study reveals that Journalists help the dictatorship to silence the media

Retrospect

Calculated success

The Theoretical Physics Institute turns fifty years