Issue # 144 _ February 2008
S&T Policy
Agribusiness

Embrapa's Growth Acceleration Program
Institutional innovation to consolidate company's presence in Africa, Europe and Latin America
By Claudia IziqueBureaucracy
Undoing the knots
Federal Tax Authorities and Anvisa regulatory body facilitate the importing of research material
By Claudia IziqueScience
Genomics

Data under questioning
Scientists highlight inadequacies in a study on contamination by transgenics
Oceanography
An almost dead sea
Pollution in the Bay of Santos leads to areas with no marine life
By Maria GuimarãesImmunology

First movement
Enzyme that may cause arthrititic inflammation and its pain discovered
By Carlos FioravantiGenetics

Muscle tone to order
Activation of gene transforms stem cells into muscle cells
By Maria GuimarãesPhysics
Black or white
Computer simulations explain how different opinions spread among the population
By Reinaldo José LopesTechnology
Biofuel

Sweet cassava ethanol
A variety of the sweet root reduces the number of stages in the production of fuel alcohol
By Dinorah ErenoRobotics

Technological literacy
Robots developed by a small company will be available to 60 thousand students this year
By Francisco BicudoChemistry

Antichagas Disease
In preliminary tests, substances killed trypanosoma cruzi
By Yuri VasconcelosBiochemistry

You only need to open your mouth
Minas Gerais company uses saliva to measure stress caused by physical and mental exhaustion
By Marcos de OliveiraHumanities
Political Science

The olive-green forest
Studies analyze military thoughts on the Amazon region
By Carlos Haag