Genetics
Interview

The enigma of pluripotency
Controlling the differentiation process of human embryonic stem cells
By Marcos Pivetta and Ricardo Zorzetto
Primate life

The matriarchs of the forest
Coexistence with the mother increases the reproductive success of muriquis
Recombinant proteins

Health reagents
Company investigates the development of input for scientific research
Agriculture

Long live the difference
Advances in the selection of coffees with unique flavors or aromas
FAPESP History I

A laboratory at an orange plantation
From studies of citrus canker to the genome of citrus variegated chlorosis
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American inheritance
Indigenous groups share a genetic alteration that favors obesity and diabetes
Genetics

The mystery about Ringo and Suflair
Dogs may have genes that protect them from muscular dystrophy
Endocrinology

Sudden immobility
Genetic alteration may paralyse the limbs of people with hyperthyroidism
Nutrigenomics

Health at the table
Research about the relation between genes and nutrition take shape
History

The secret photos of professor Agassiz
Exhibition and book shed light on images made by a rival of Darwin
By Carlos Haag
Biology

The impact of transforming one life into another
Venter's technological feat spurred a media revolution
By Mayana Zatz
Biology

Craig Venter, a necessary good
The scientist is like a naughty boy who is after the tasty tidbits
Crodowaldo Pavan
Influences and developments
Brazil has a number of groups that are working at the cutting edge of knowledge
Crodowaldo Pavan
Reminiscences from the time of the Drosophilae
In honor of Crodowaldo Pavan, now deceased
Crodowaldo Pavan
The institutionalization of research
Dreyfus, Dobzhansky and Pavan were important for the development of genetics
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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