Issue # 262 _ December 2017

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Cover

Taking cities out of the emergency room
Transforming urban areas into healthy environments requires progress from research to public policies By
Heat waves: More intense, longer, and more frequent
Higher temperatures increase mortality around the world By

S&T Policy

INVESTMENT

Collective support

Researchers use crowdfunding to fund research projects

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Science

EPIDEMIOLOGY

From monkeys to people

FIOCRUZ team suggests a sixth form of malaria, transmitted by mosquitoes infected after biting wild primates in the Atlantic Forest

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GENETICS

Fighting citrus diseases

Researchers produce first transgenic orange plant resistant to Xylella fastidiosa

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Technology

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Water without salt

Group develops new desalination system that uses activated carbon obtained from polymer conductors

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Humanities

LETTER EDITING

Epistolary methodology

A Franco-Brazilian project establishes criteria for the publication of intellectual correspondence

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