{"id":69798,"date":"2004-12-20T17:12:48","date_gmt":"2004-12-20T19:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=69798"},"modified":"2012-12-20T19:38:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T21:38:37","slug":"the-best-of-the-science-made-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/the-best-of-the-science-made-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"The best of the science made in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are glad to present the most recent English edition of <em>Pesquisa<\/em> <em>FAPESP<\/em>, a leading science news magazine published monthly in Brazil. This special issue is the second one printed in English and exhibits some of the best articles written by our staff and collaborators between December 2002 and February 2004 \u2013 the first one was printed in 2002 and comprised articles written from March to November of that year.<\/p>\n<p>The following 112 pages bring you a short overview of the Brazilian scientific production that reached 11,285 papers published in the ISI indexed journals in 2003 \u2013 almost half of Latin America scientific production and 1.55% of world scientific production \u2013 in many different areas such as genetics, physics, medicine, ecology, chemistry, materials science and biochemistry, just to mention some.<\/p>\n<p>In this issue, you will discover that the preeminent Brazilian sanitarian Oswaldo Cruz, who lived in the beginning of the last century, was a promising talent since his early years when he went to study at Pasteur Institute in Paris. You will also find the most advanced results of an experimental treatment: the transplant of stem cells into the heart muscle to recover from heart failure.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pesquisa FAPESP<\/em> narrates Brazilian researchers efforts to save pernambuco wood (<em>pau-brasil<\/em> in Portuguese), the tree that named the country, from the risk of extinction and the climate alterations caused in the Amazon Forest by the use of the slash-and-burn clearance to prepare the land for cultivation. From page 72 to 75, we show the successful partnership between scientists that work at universities and scientists of the enormous Companhia Sider\u00fargica Nacional (CSN), one of the biggest Brazilian steel producer. At the humanities section, you can read the charming story of a researcher that organized an abundance of documents \u2013 tunes, parodies, songs and musical duels \u2013 registering popular culture that were in possession of the maestro Heitor Villa-Lobos, one of the most important Brazilian classical composer.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pesquisa FAPESP<\/em> is an effective means to diffuse the scientific knowledge discovered by the S\u00e3o Paulo State Research Foudation (FAPESP), the second biggest science funding agency in Brazil that has been associated for 40 years with the expansion of scientific research in S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 state that produces nearly 50% of the Brazilian scientific production. Find every month at the web site of <em>Pesquisa <\/em><em>FAPESP<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.revistapesquisa.fapesp.br<\/a>) \u2013 published in Portuguese, English and Spanish \u2013 an in-depth prospect of the most representative Brazilian studies in several scientific branches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The best of the science made in Brazil","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"coauthors":[373],"class_list":["post-69798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69798"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=69798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}