Issue # 128 _ October 2006

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Sertãozinho, powerhouse of innovations: City in the center of the sugar and alcohol industry becomes a center of new products and processes for the sector

S&T Policy

Innovation

Foundation stone

Federal government launches program that offers R$ 450 million in non-reimbursable funds for innovative companies

Intellectual Property

To disseminate knowledge

FAPESP gives up being owner of the patents generated by research projects

Environment

Buffer Zone

Study that proposed a protection zone for the Cantareira Park inspires a bill

Technological parks

Flight plan

Support from the municipal government and from Embraer speeds up project in São José dos Campos

Science

Agriculture

The broom swept

Simple techniques show how to recover the cacao plantations

Biochemistry

Like a dagger

Poison from the sting of a river stingray causes pain, swelling and necrosis

Medicine

More attention to the female heart

Majority of physicians do not alert women to the risk of a heart attack, even though mortality is close to that in men

Genetics

Fleeting recollections

Mice with a genetic alteration suffer from loss of memory similar to that with Alzheimer's

Physics

Echoes of gravity

The Brazilian gravitational wave detector begins to function

Technology

Alcoholic drink

Cachaça revealed

Studies increase knowledge about the drink and contribute to its quality

Immunotherapy

Exaggerated reaction

An innovative diagnostic kit monitors the evolution of respiratory allergy

Pharmacology

Biotechnology hopes

A company prepares immunotherapy for cancer treatment and a vaccine against ticks

Humanities

Ethics

Between Virtue and Fortune

How to analyze political ethics without getting lost in moralism

Sociology

The exorcism of the Internet

Psychologists and lawyers advocate moderation in criticisms of the web and say that the virtual media merely exteriorizes disorders of the real world

History

A tropical Lady Macbeth

Letters from Dona Leopoldina reveal a political organizer who hated democracy