Issue # 293 _ July 2020
Cover
- Looking for shortcuts
- International teams use eight different techniques to create 150 COVID-19 vaccine candidates in six months By Marcos Pivetta
- Saving time
- Brazilian research centers negotiate deals to import vaccine production technology By Carlos Fioravanti
- Standing alone
- Brazilian vaccine projects race to begin clinical trials next year By Carlos Fioravanti
- Cristiana Toscano: An unprecedented global effort
- According to the only Brazilian member of a WHO vaccine committee, we are experiencing unprecedented worldwide collaboration to develop a vaccine in record time By Yuri Vasconcelos
- Science takes on the virus
- Federal call for proposals attracts 2,200 applications for research grants to study COVID-19 By Fabrício Marques and Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade
- Calling all scientists
- Researchers in São Paulo mobilize against the pandemic as FAPESP awards funding to 210 related projects By Fabrício Marques
- Each nation’s effort
- Brazil’s government unfreezes funding for COVID-19 research, but will spend far less than developed countries By Fabrício Marques
- Difficult exit
- Quarantine relaxation strategies differ around the country By Yuri Vasconcelos and Rubem Barros
- The challenge of calculating R
- Poor data makes the effective reproduction rate difficult to track and is hampering the pandemic response By Domingos Zaparolli
- A difficult return
- Brazil seeks health and education parameters for planning the resumption of in-person classes in its school systems By Carlos Fioravanti
- Amplified violence
- Rates of violence against women in Brazil increase during the pandemic By Christina Queiroz
- Research during quarantine
- By Redação
Environment
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The return of deforestation
Official INPE figure says 10,129 km2 of the Amazon were deforested in 2019, the most since 2008
By Marcos PivettaNeuroscience
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Early deficit
People with Huntington's disease tend to produce fewer neurons since birth
By Ricardo Zorzetto