Issue # 66 _ July 2001
Cover
- Selective memory
- Research shows that the similar injuries, but from separate causes, make the brain reorganize in different fashions, resulting in epilepsy or a stroke By Tadeu Arantes
- A blow to post-trauma epilepsy
- A Unifesp project has resulted in a patent request for medicine based on scopolamine salts, substances normally used to treat amnesia, which can avoid the appearance of the illness in victims who have received substantial head injuries
S&T Policy
partnership
Contracts X Conflicts
Nature comments report of the Forum that gathers companies and universities together
conference
Challenge to competence
Brazil to debate strategic plan for science, technology and innovation
new secretary
Focus on the energy matrix
Altenfelder Silva takes over the SCTDE, with plans to invest in research
commemoration
Education and democracy
Capes reaches its 50th anniversary, betting on the education of human resources
Science
Medicine
Dissecting the forces of aneurism
The study of the aorta tensions moves on using the device of an Indian engineer
Pharmacology
A Plant against tuberculosis
In the laboratory, an extract of Physalis angulata exterminates six types of Mycobacterium
Ecology
A SinBiota base is already in operation
The Paulista biodiversity is on the Internet, with lots of data and hundreds of maps
Animal behavior
Bumps on the road of evolution
An USP study knocks down a model on the use and making of tools
Technology
ceramics
New model of manufacturing performance
Cepid supports the modernization of the 108 companies in the Porto Ferreira ceramics complex
By Claudia Izique
Chemistry
Cheap, efficient, and the market leader
New compound for the pulp industry lowers costs and does not pollute
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
X-ray of pollution in Campinas
Unicamp researcher detects the presence of metal in water, the air and in effluents