Issue # 113 _ July 2005

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Cover

Spoan: a new illness
Consanguineous marriages bring about an unknown form of deficiency in a Northeast town By

S&T Policy

Federal Government

Fast lane

A new bill speeds up measures to stimulate technological innovation

Legislation

Battle in the courts

Law that permits the use of embryonic stem cells is contested by the attorney-general of the Republic

Ecology

Under new management

Law authorizes private management of public forest to contain deforestation

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Science

Paleontology

The mastodon and the macrauchenia

Dating the teeth helps in the reconstruction of the Northeast's megafauna

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Botany

On the surface of the earth

Botanists identify in São Paulo 7,239 species of native plants, equivalent to two thirds of Europe's flora

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Physiology

The chemistry of acupuncture

Needles activate neurotransmitter and protect against gastric ulcer and halts in breathing during sleep

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Biochemistry

Molecular goldsmith

São Paulo network overcomes the high risk of a fiasco and clarifies the structure of 52 proteins

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Genetics

The intelligence leaps

Strips of mobile DNA regulate the differentiation of nerve cells

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Technology

Energy

On the waves of the sea

Port in Ceará will have an electricity generation plant developed at UFRJ

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Gastroenterology

Mopping up

Machine developed by a small company cleans endoscopes more effectively

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Aerospace engineering

Space for conquests

Brazil now has thrusters and catalysts, two essential components for satellites

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Chemistry

Powerful liaisons

Ceramic nanoribbons are candidates for making connections in circuits and transistors

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Humanities

Literature

The Mouth that Hell does not want to shut

A biography and a new edition revive the argument concerning the libertarian Gregório de Mattos

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Narcotics

Ways of prevention

A study from Cebrid helps to distinguish myth from reality in the panorama of drug use in Brazil

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History

Die Hard

Authoritarianism still reigns in the Brazilian information service

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CINEMA

Africa in Brazil

Film reveals the life of a slave who created a personal religion