Issue # 145 _ March 2008

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Greener than we thought: The country has consumed 30% of its natural vegetation, most of it in the last 50 years
The art of scanning clouds: Three satellites, Landsat, Cbers and Terra, monitor the Amazon Region's controversial deforestation

Co-operation among universities, companies and the government makes discovery and the development of drugs in England easier

Exhibition unveils DNA, from biodiversity up to the cell's nucleus

Council of Ministers confirms the release of transgenic corn for sale

Fapesp and Braskem to invest R$ 50 million in green polymers

Countryside reveals unexpected biological wealth

Team identifies how an essential brain protein causes cellular death in Alzheimer patients

With its 210 chromosomes, the genome of the Amazon region plant provides information about its therapeutic properties

Incubated companies grow in Brazil and now seek a new level of economic development and business success

Artificial neural networks used to manufacture automotive brake lights

Tracking the path of silicon used in fertilizers

Study on "women alone" goes against Wave and proves that "one can be happy on one's own" and still find love

The Farc: "a military giant maybe but politically and democratically a dwarf"

Czech author was viewed as a writer who could shed light on national life during military regime