Issue # 76 _ June 2002
S&T Policy
Biodiversity

Actions against biopiracy
WIPO studies how to protect cultures and genetic resources
By Claudia IziqueReport

Genomics for health
WHO foresees advances in the struggle against morbid and genetic diseases
FAPs

State indicators
Foundations will take part in the National System for Information in Science&Technology
Worker’s Health

Underdiagnosis jeopardizes public policies
Project will quantify real incidence work accidents in Piracicaba
Science
Paleontology

Luzia living with the sloths
The huge South American mammals were contemporaries of the oldest human fossil of the Americas
Zootechny

The unexpected bull
Thanks to a mistake, the first Brazilian clone from a fetus somatic cell is born
Physics

The high relief of memory
Team from Pernambuco clarifies an essential phenomenon in computers
Technology
Metallurgy engineering

Controlled noise
A sandwich of steel sheets and a polymer form plates that absorb the vibrations of motors
By Dinorah Erenocomputing

Creation without limits
Company from São Paulo develops software that incorporates special effects into video systems
Agronomy industry

Environmental and energy gains
Innovative project of mini mills proposes total integration around alcohol production
yeast

Wealth in the mill's leftovers
Ital and Copersucar develop edible products from the residues of alcohol production
By Revisor and RedaçãoAgronomy

Land without fire
In Pará, instead of burning, the stubble is ground up and becomes a fertilizer