Biology
Extraterrestrial life
Tiny, but hefty
Microorganisms invisible to the naked eye can survive interplanetary trips
Emerging parasites
Brazilian forms of toxoplasmosis
Local types of encephalitis-causing toxoplasmosis
Organic prototypes
Inspired on birds and elephants
The objective of the new machines is to save energy on all possible fronts
Flavio Alterthum
Flavio Alterthum: Lessons about Brazil’s ethanol
The co-author of the best-known basic microbiology book in Brazil
History of FAPESP II
New paradigms
The Bioq-FAPESP Program boosted biochemistry in the 1970s
Bioprospecting
Bureaucratic maze
A new strategy to evaluate requests to collect and study species from Brazil
Internationalization
Interest in diversity
Group from Unesp in Rio Claro is a reference for foreign biologists
Bioinformatics
How a human being is made
Researchers map the network of adult human cells and their precursors
Physical chemistry
Power games
Nanotubes of biological molecules may turn into sensors and energy cells
Biology
Craig Venter, a necessary good
The scientist is like a naughty boy who is after the tasty tidbits
Biology
The impact of transforming one life into another
Venter's technological feat spurred a media revolution
By Mayana Zatz
Miguel Trefaut
Miguel Trefaut Urbano Rodrigues: In the midst of snakes and lizards
USP biologist described 53 new reptile species and genera
Crodowaldo Pavan
Reminiscences from the time of the Drosophilae
In honor of Crodowaldo Pavan, now deceased
Special
A genetics-friendly environment
In 2009, Brazil lost one of its best-known scientists. Victim of multiple organ and systems failure, caused by an earlier brush with cancer and a previous heart attack, the biologist and geneticist Crodowaldo Pavan died on the April 3, at the age of 89, in the Universitário Hospital of the University of São Paulo (USP),... View Article
Biomedical engineering
Versatile rubber
Latex is a raw material to products used by diabetics