Medicine
Funding
United States
Research foundations are working to create a network for investigating malaria
Medical drugs
Creative copies
Molecules that simulate others facilitate the search for original products
Charles Naspitz
Charles Naspitz: Epidemic in the air
Child allergy expert talks about the challenge of understanding and treating asthma
Biomedical engineering
Real time protection
Equipment evaluates how lungs on artificial respiration react in ICUs
Biomedical engineering
National pacemaker
Four universities take part in integrated circuit development
Clinical analyses
Quick response
Portable device allows real-time diagnosis of anemia
Neuroscience
Within the brain
A university has set up a research institute into neurological diseases
Pharmacology
Sugar, but no arthritis
Guar gum alleviates pain and prevents damage in the joints progressing
Medicine
Artificial bones
A team is creating solutions for surgical prostheses in bone reconstruction
Medical genetics
Tormented bodies
The mutation that stiffens muscles and changes posture has been identified
Medicine
Bathed in light
Electronic device monitors radiation dose used to treat physiologic jaundice
Justice
Freedom to advance
Supreme Court officially supports the Brazilian strain of embryo stem cells
Memory
Fungus in the air
Adolpho Lutz published two articles describing a new disease, 100 years ago
Luiz Hildebrando P. da Silva
On the banks of the Madeira river
Sanitation expert speaks as chemotherapy that can block the action of parasites
By Claudia Izique and Ricardo Zorzetto