Biology

Photoloab

Marine alien

Marine alien

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ECOLOGY

Protection net

Mangroves gain importance in the face of climate change

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Memory

Faithful portraits

Augusto Esteves was the first science illustrator at the Butantan Institute

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GENETIC ENGINEERING

Beneficial mutations

Wild microorganisms can increase ethanol production

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BIODIVERSITY

Keeping an eye on the cat

Researchers seek to increase the jaguar population in the Atlantic Forest

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ECOLOGY

Trip of No Return

Female Magellanic penguins are more likely than males to die during migration

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Microbiology

For people and plants

Expectorant medicine may prove effective in controlling orange disease

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MARINE BIOLOGY 

Sand planet

A tiny fauna lives on sand grains in shallow ocean waters

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Cooperation

A living collection

Director of the London Natural History Museum in search of partnerships

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CELL BIOLOGY

Metastatic RNA

Study shows the role of a special type of ribonucleic acid in spreading cancer

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Careers

A debt paid

Biologist sets up the first neuroproteomics laboratory in Latin America

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Fire protection

The Butantan Collection

Butantan has opened its building to house the institution’s collections

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Abrolhos Bank

Life out of rocks

Coralline algae feed the ocean with marine life, nutrients and energy

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monkeys talk

“Beware the hawk in the tree”

Titi monkey vocalizations indicate predator and its location

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Photolab

Living blindly

Living blindly

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SPECIAL BIOTA EDUCATION VII

Invisible threat

Environmental changes can threaten conservation of the Amazon

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Ethology

Stranger in the nest

Alien queen bee invades orphan colony and assumes command

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GENETICS

Worm may help put the brakes on aging

Drug improves cell function in C. elegans

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COVER

The first steps of a new species

Plants and animals differentiate by means of amazing mechanisms

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Migration

200-day nonstop flight

Alpine swift is able to fly nonstop for 200 days

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Biophysics

Fluid boundaries

Menbranes' elastic properties vary according to the cell

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ECOLOGY

Circles of time

Tree show how humidity and temperature have changed over the years

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Biota-FAPESP Education III

Biota Education III focuses on the pantanal

Ocupation and land use in the Pantanal addressed by specialists

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Biota-FAPESP Education II

Biota Education II deals with pampa biodiversity

Biodiversity of southern grasslands, the Pampas, highlighted in talks

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Climate

El Niño affects coral for years

El Niño affects coral for years

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Pleistocene

Man did not hunt large animals in Brazil

Man did not hunt large animals in Brazil

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Caraça mountain range

Ancient forests in the state of Minas Gerais

Region may have been rainy and hot 30 million years ago

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Rarities in the reefs

Rarities in the reefs

Group describes three new marine sponge species

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Parasitology

Health in the Emperor’s day

Human remains reveal profile of diseases of 17th-19th centuries

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CELL BIOLOGY

Metastatic RNA

Study shows the role of a special type of ribonucleic acid in spreading cancer

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