Issue # 69 _ October 2001
S&T Policy
medicine
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Far-Manguinhos exports knowledge
Institute wants to transfer anti-retroviral production technology to Angola
By Claudia Iziqueethics
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A sensitive question
Scientific publications look for ways of dealing with conflicts of interest
research
Technology and the trade balance
Research by FGV-RJ analyses imports and exports of technology services Graph
electronic library
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Changes under way
Capes incorporates ProBE and FAPESP studies alterations to the program
foreign
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Effects of September 11
Redoubled security in the USA because of terror affects research in Brazil
Science
biology
Ready to use
The first GM mice made in Brazil are born and they will serve as a model for thestudy of diseases
physics
The proton in transformation
A study demonstrates how an accelerated particle can originate others
Neurology
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Defect in production
Study detects chromosomal variation far higher than expected in neurons
Botany
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The sweet seeds of the Cerrado (Wooded Savanna)
In the carbohydrates stored by the vegetables could be the key to the conservation of the ecosystem
Technology
Nuclear energy
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Bacteria detector
In Rio, within two hours a laboratory identifies pathogenic micro organisms
Meteorology
Detailed weather forecasts
Inpe develops an advanced model of weather forecasting with high resolution
physics
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Pollutants targeted by of light and sound
A PIPE company develops a photo acoustic system that analyzes atmospheric air
Humanities
Book
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The ABC of speaking with the hands
For the first time in Brazil, the language of the deaf and dumb is set out in a dictionary