Issue # 67 _ August 2001
S&T Policy
post-graduation

Stimulus for direct doctorate
New model of scholarships could have duration of five years
Science
Botany

Between grasses and bamboos
The first book about the São Paulo Phanerogamous Flora brings together information on almost 500 species of native and imported gramineous plants
By Marcos PivettaEcology

Digitalized Amazon
From satellite images, there comes a complete and detailed picture of the whole of the Amazon basin territory, and shortly to follow, the whole country
By Simone Biehler MateosScience
A new ONSA conquest
Bioinformation technology team from São Paulo the contended Agrobacterium genome
biochemistry

Medicines from the sea
Research into marine resources finds anti tumor substances in sponges and tunicates on the coast
By Ana Maria Fioribiophysics
Movement under measure
A study reveals the forces which act on the body in action and even indicate the ideal form for hitting the tennis ball
By José Tadeu ArantesTechnology
telecommunications

Time to grow
Company incubated in the Campinas Ciatec develops equipment for optical transmission and is getting ready to export
By Carlos TavaresInnovation

Partnerships with the PIPE
Incubator makes room for another 78 vacancies and for new FAPESP projects
Cientec 2001
Exhibition of good reasons
Campinas bring together 11 research institutions and holds exhibition of projects
biomedical engineering

Eye operation with the topograph
Small company develops equipment to help with ophthalmological surgery