Issue # 262 _ December 2017
Cover
- Taking cities out of the emergency room
- Transforming urban areas into healthy environments requires progress from research to public policies By Maria Guimarães
- Heat waves: More intense, longer, and more frequent
- Higher temperatures increase mortality around the world By Carlos Fioravanti and Reinaldo José Lopes
S&T Policy
INVESTMENT
Collective support
Researchers use crowdfunding to fund research projects
By Bruno de PierroScience
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
By Carlos FioravantiGENETICS
Fighting citrus diseases
Researchers produce first transgenic orange plant resistant to Xylella fastidiosa
By Rodrigo de Oliveira AndradeTechnology
CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Water without salt
Group develops new desalination system that uses activated carbon obtained from polymer conductors
By Marcos de Oliveira