Issue # 69 _ October 2001
S&T Policy
medicine

Far-Manguinhos exports knowledge
Institute wants to transfer anti-retroviral production technology to Angola
By Claudia Iziqueethics

A sensitive question
Scientific publications look for ways of dealing with conflicts of interest
electronic library

Changes under way
Capes incorporates ProBE and FAPESP studies alterations to the program
foreign

Effects of September 11
Redoubled security in the USA because of terror affects research in Brazil
Science
Neurology

Defect in production
Study detects chromosomal variation far higher than expected in neurons
public health
Fewer deaths from the air
An international group shows the benefits that the drop atmospheric pollution rate brings to public health in four large metropolises
By Maria Aparecida Medeiros and Adilson Augustophysics
The proton in transformation
A study demonstrates how an accelerated particle can originate others
Technology
Food Engineering

Healthy and natural
Studies at Unicamp open the way for the production of isoflavones extracted from soybeans and new uses for propolis
Nuclear energy

Bacteria detector
In Rio, within two hours a laboratory identifies pathogenic micro organisms
Meteorology
Detailed weather forecasts
Inpe develops an advanced model of weather forecasting with high resolution