Genetics
Endocrinology
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Sudden immobility
Genetic alteration may paralyse the limbs of people with hyperthyroidism
Nutrigenomics
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Health at the table
Research about the relation between genes and nutrition take shape
History
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The secret photos of professor Agassiz
Exhibition and book shed light on images made by a rival of Darwin
By Carlos Haag
Biology
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The impact of transforming one life into another
Venter's technological feat spurred a media revolution
By Mayana Zatz
Biology
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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
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
Microbiology
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The artisans of ethanol
Discoveries encourage research into expanding alcohol productivity
biodiversity
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The next ten years
Researchers prepare strategies for the future of the Programa Biota-FAPESP
Genetics
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Arm wrestling
Study looks for genes that avoid the symptoms of a type of muscular dystrophy
Philip Hanawalt
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Philip Hanawalt: “What we don’t know is what is most important in science”
Stanford professor upholds creativity in research