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Understanding the chemical composition of foods and how it influences their sensory quality and biological effects is one of the goals of the Food Research Center, supported by FAPESP.

The results, published in Scientific Reports, could pave way to development of new antitumoral compounds.

Workshop held by Transatlantic Platform for the Social Sciences & Humanities discussed methodologies to integrate researchers and promote cooperation among countries.

Brazilian researchers have identified gene alterations that could help predict outcomes for patients with pilocytic astrocytoma, one of the most frequent brain tumors in children.

The capital of São Paulo State in Brazil was 12th in the 2015 ranking of the world's top 20 ecosystems for technology startups.

Research performed with funding from FAPESP uses computer models to improve broiler chicken production.

This view was expressed by José Goldemberg, FAPESP's incoming President, in his inaugural address.

Celso Lafer, whose eight years as President have ended, highlights FAPESP's contribution to the consolidation of research conducted in São Paulo State in the global science, technology and innovation arena.

Results of experiment performed at the Large Hadron Collider were published in Nature Physics. The investigators include researchers affiliated with the University of São Paulo and the University of Campinas.

Protocol reduces snoring frequency and intensity by reducing flaccidity of throat muscles.

Research shows that rises in temperature reduce the metabolic rate of hummingbirds, which fly less as a result.

Collaboration between Brazilian and British researchers involves the simultaneous use of EEG and fMRI to study brain activity.

Open-source software is driving growth in online information repositories that can be used free of charge, according to experts who attended an event held to commemorate the tenth anniversary of FAPESP's Virtual Library.

Frank Kirchhoff, winner of Germany's Leibniz Prize, talked to Agência FAPESP about promising strategies to combat the virus responsible for the AIDS pandemic.

The hepato-nephrocitic system can combat toxic substances depending on the concentration and length of exposure, researchers show.

Treatment with human stem cells increased the survival rate by 50%, according to a paper published by Stem Cells International.

A remotely operated vehicle uses thrusters to move underwater and crawls over a ship's hull on motorized tracks to detect structural flaws with ultrasonic transducers.

Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Glasgow in Scotland and former FAPESP scholarship holder is Brazil's only representative in a research consortium comprising seven European institutions.

A group of researchers in Brazil has joined the collaboration that operates a particle detector installed on the International Space Station.

Whereas conventional drugs require prolonged treatment to be effective, compounds that inhibit an enzyme involved in DNA methylation have been shown to have antidepressant effects in animals.

Research performed at the University of São Paulo's Mathematics & Computer Science Institute in Brazil won a prize at an international conference.

Estradiol treatment improved the performance of rats with induced menopause in memory tests as well as mitigating symptoms of depression.

Chemical, physical and biological processes occurring in different soil regions are studied at the atomic scale.

Understanding how these substances act in blood vessels is the aim of a group of scientists affiliated with Redoxome, a research center supported by FAPESP.

Research strategies and global database on glass properties presented at Advanced School on Glasses and Glass-Ceramics.

Researchers in Brazil and the United States are investigating how the human brain perceives time and uses this information to plan actions.

Driverless vehicle can be called using smartphone app, which allows user to use voice commands to say where to go.

Technique developed at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine also helps determine efficacy of anti-Chagas drugs.

Identifying the neural circuits involved in the organization of defensive responses to different dangerous situations is the goal pursued by a group of Brazilian researchers.

New computational tools for medical practice were presented at an international symposium in Brazil.