Highlights

SUGARCANE

Reinforcement in the genome research

The University of Pernambuco opens a genetics laboratory

CANCER GENOME

Project reaps in more US$ 5 million

FAPESP and Ludwig publish results and widen their investment

PUBLIC SECTOR

The social control of privatization

A seminar debates the regulating of public services

Opinion

Serpents and the pharmaceutical industry

As the Butantan Institute demonstrated, poisons can originate medicines

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PLASTIC ARTS

Female bodies dressed with paint

Study analyzes how Brazilian artists have painted women

URBANISM

Eastern zone of São Paulo faces the new millennium

Research traces origins and destiny of a region of São Paulo

Medicine

Alternative for better speech

Prosthesis proved effective in correcting labial malformations

Electrical Engineering

Remote electronic watchman

Company from São Carlos develops pioneer remote access system

CHEMISTRY

Well tuned equipment

Small company seeks excellence in the production of reference material

Optics

Fine control of the waves of light

Team from USP wins international research

ZOOLOGY

Fish from last century

Researcher recovers pioneer drawings of England’s

IMMUNOLOGY

Rattlesnake antidote gets lighter

New immunotherapy to permit less aggressive treatment against snake’s poison

Animal nutrition

Straight from the cow, diet milk

Molecule added to feed shows benefit

Physics

In search of a final theory

Research sets out to unify the basic forces of nature

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SBPC

The place for science and technology

Researchers debate Brazil in the society of knowledge