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Lipid fragments coated with polymers displayed action against three species of bacteria associated with hospital infection.

Study published in Cell by researchers from Brazil and the United States suggests inducing overexpression of the Jagged1 gene can prevent the development of degenerative disease.

Groundbreaking initiatives in fourth-generation synchrotron light – Sirius, under construction at Campinas, São Paulo State, and Sweden's Max IV – were presented at an event on scientific cooperation.

Experimental software uses mathematics to help identify and separate parts of digitized photographs or medical diagnostic images.

Treatment with genetically modified mesenchymal stem cells improved cognitive performance in experiments with mice.

Larvae of Scaptotrigona depilis depend on a microorganism to complete their development cycle, Brazilian researchers have discovered.

Experimental results show that defects in oligodendrocytes, a type of brain cell, may have a key role in the development of the disease.

A vivarium with the capacity to breed up to 3,000 adult fish for use in scientific investigation has opened at a research center supported by FAPESP.

Educational activities organized by the Obesity and Comorbidities Research Center supply students from public schools with information about food and its implications for health.

12th Annual Meeting of the Science and Technology in Society Forum was attended by approximately 1,000 people from 100 countries.

This was one of the main conclusions reached by researchers participating in meetings hosted by FAPESP on issues that will be discussed during COP21 in December.

Study published in Journal of Pineal Research shows that melatonin inhibits a protein that plays a key role in tumor cell migration and invasion.

Study contributes to a better understanding of a protein essential to the survival and rapid proliferation of tumor cells.

Researchers have discovered that omeprazole boosts the action of the drug normally used to combat Schistosoma mansoni.

Economic losses due to rising sea levels and storm surges associated with extreme weather events could reach almost R$2 billion in São Paulo State's most important port city unless adaptive measures are implemented.

A study presented at FAPESP's headquarters and conducted by researchers in Brazil and elsewhere served as a basis for the proposal to be taken to COP21.

The impact of new technology on the way we live and work was discussed at an event that brought together German and Brazilian researchers at FAPESP's headquarters.

Structures produced by researchers at University of São Paulo and Harvard show potential to enhance efficiency of systems that require highly sensitive detection of light or radiation.

Research priorities were discussed by Keith Carter, senior advisor at PAHO-WHO, and other experts during the São Paulo School of Advanced Sciences on Malaria Eradication.

People who live in metropolitan São Paulo take half an hour longer than necessary on average to commute between home and work. Eliminating this excess would add 2.83% to Brazil's GDP.

Soil recovery and water management research findings were shared at a seminar co-hosted by FAPESP and the Bunge Foundation.

Sea and tide levels in São Paulo State's most important port city are expected to rise 18-30 cm by 2050, according to an international study.

Study suggests arrival of felids in North America may have caused disappearance of up to 40 species of the family to which modern dogs, wolves and coyotes belong.

In an article published in Scientific Reports, researchers from Brazil, the UK and Sweden report alterations in sleep patterns and melatonin production in workers in Xapuri, Acre State, northern Brazil.

The contribution of renewable energy sources will need to increase if Brazil is to fulfill its pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 43% in 2030 compared with 2005.

Progress achieved in recent decades, such as the improvement in life expectancy, could be reversed by continuous rapid biodiversity and ecosystem losses, warn two landmark global reports.

Estimate comes from a study conducted by researchers in Brazil, England and the United States, published in Nature Geoscience.

The finding comes from studies with mice and was presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Federation of Experimental Biology Societies.

Because of its high rotation rate, a Be star is oblate and ejects matter to form a plasma disk around it. The physics that describes these disks can be used to explain the genesis of our planetary system.

Destruction of red blood cells, which is common in patients with sickle cell anemia, causes systemic inflammation and impairs blood circulation.