Issue # 64 _ May 2001
S&T Policy
inauguration
One step forward
Unesp creates the first storage and distribution bank for the genes of sugar cane bacteria
press
Recognized work
The newspaper The New York Times praises the quality of the work being carried out in Brazil
investment
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Investigation network
Selected laboratories will receive US$ 8 million to sequence four viruses
infrastructure
Growing Research
The Federal government creates regional networks to map bacteria and fungi
informatics
The new old Recife
Pernambuco begins to invest R$ 33 million in the construction of its Digital Port
Science
Medicine
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Partnership against cancer
Project links Heart Institute to industry to produce a "Trojan horse" to combat the illness
Epidemiology
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Mosquitoes: the danger advances
Specialists predict that urban yellow fever and malaria will once more attack the South East
By Suzel Tunesmaterials
Superconductor at room temperature
A pyrolytic graphite appears to behave as a superconductor in temperatures as hot as 27°C
By Marcos PivettaTechnology
Mineral
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Change of status
Brazil starts to produce manganese of high purity for the electronic industry
investment
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Good ideas on display
The novelties and the companies' intentions
By João Paulo Nucci and Marcos de OliveiraFoods
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Healthy camu-camu
Fruit juice with high vitamin C content is obtained in powder form and micro-encapsulated
Humanities
Cinema
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The independent who made it
Thesis shows Tarantino as a singular filmmaker who is based on plurality