Issue # 76 _ June 2002
S&T Policy
Biodiversity
Actions against biopiracy
WIPO studies how to protect cultures and genetic resources
By Claudia IziqueReport
Genomics for health
WHO foresees advances in the struggle against morbid and genetic diseases
FAPs
State indicators
Foundations will take part in the National System for Information in Science&Technology
Worker’s Health
Underdiagnosis jeopardizes public policies
Project will quantify real incidence work accidents in Piracicaba
Science
Paleontology
Luzia living with the sloths
The huge South American mammals were contemporaries of the oldest human fossil of the Americas
Zootechny
The unexpected bull
Thanks to a mistake, the first Brazilian clone from a fetus somatic cell is born
Physics
The high relief of memory
Team from Pernambuco clarifies an essential phenomenon in computers
Technology
Metallurgy engineering
Controlled noise
A sandwich of steel sheets and a polymer form plates that absorb the vibrations of motors
By Dinorah Erenocomputing
Creation without limits
Company from São Paulo develops software that incorporates special effects into video systems
Agronomy industry
Environmental and energy gains
Innovative project of mini mills proposes total integration around alcohol production
yeast
Wealth in the mill's leftovers
Ital and Copersucar develop edible products from the residues of alcohol production
By Revisor and RedaçãoAgronomy
Land without fire
In Pará, instead of burning, the stubble is ground up and becomes a fertilizer