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Meeting in Beijing, Brazilians and Chinese will discuss studies in different fields to increase joint research between the two countries.

Electrochemical system could result in a device that quickly measures the levels of an amino acid essential to several biological functions in the body.

Insects are considered biomarkers of an ecosystem’s health; researchers conducted analyses in areas previously planted with eucalyptus trees.

The test has detected a degree of arterial obstruction in 42.2% of a sample of 90 patients with no history of cardiovascular disease.

Compounds made by combining an organic molecule with copper or zinc ions were tested in vitro against different types of tumors.

Researchers at the University of São Paulo and the Necker Hospital of Paris shed light on how nine different genetic defects can prevent the body’s immune system from fighting infections caused by mycobacteria.

Topic is discussed by experts from several countries in the book Torture in the Age of Human Rights.

An international group of researchers led by Brazil locates possible sources of asteroid fragments with basaltic crust.

Researchers from Brazil have almost completed the phylogeny of birds known as antbirds. The findings of the study were presented at an event in England.

Brazilian university researchers develop artificial chlorophyll molecules capable of using solar energy and water to generate hydrogen and oxygen; the study was presented at an event in England.

The GOAmazon Project will collect data for two years to understand how pollution can alter cloud characteristics and affect rainfall patterns.

Findings of the study were presented at the UK-Brazil-Chile Frontiers of Science conference held in the United Kingdom by the Royal Society, FAPESP and the Brazilian and Chilean Academies of Sciences.

For the fourth consecutive year, the electronic library leads the Top Portals category of the Ranking Web of World Repositories, which measures visibility and online impact.

This is the view of Brazilian researcher Dimitri Alexei Gadotti, member of the European Southern Observatory team of astronomers.

Researchers estimate that up to 12% of the biome’s 431 amphibian species may become extinct in the coming decades.

The GOAmazon project, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, FAPESP and FAPEAM, will attempt to reveal how the process of urbanization in the capital affects the Amazon ecosystem.

Emilio Moran, from Michigan State University, will coordinate a FAPESP funded research about the effects of the construction of the dam on urban life, on agriculture and on the local population to be resettled.

Study compares the divergent policies of Brazilian and Argentine organizations during the crisis of the 1990s and early 2000s.

This assessment was made by Jan-Michael Rost, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute, in a roundtable discussion about complex systems and sustainability.

Brazilian university research compared the genetically modified variety most produced in Brazil with a natural equivalent and found higher levels of iron, copper and cobalt.

Just as a vaccine against the bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes is about to be tested, a Brazilian hospital team demonstrates that the compound may also have therapeutic potential.

Findings from a study conducted in France were presented at the Dimensions US-BIOTA São Paulo workshop.

The radio telescope in Chile receives the last of its 66 high-precision radio antennas. The antennas are expected to operate in synchronized fashion as if they were a single telescope 16 kilometers in diameter.

Researchers will meet to discuss the viability of sustainable energy production in Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa.

Institutional conservatism makes it difficult to change undergraduate course offerings in Brazil, say experts.

The event will bring together plant biotechnology researchers, the pharmaceutical industry and editors of the journals Nature Chemical Biology and Nature Biotechnology.

In experiments using mice, silencing the E2F2 gene significantly inhibited the formation of teratomas without diminishing pluripotency.

Researchers from Brazil and the US try to understand the evolutionary, geological, climatic and genetic processes behind current patterns of biodiversity.

Research shows that analysis of the levels of the renal protein angiotensinogen in urine can provide an earlier indication of the appearance of kidney damage in diabetics.

Study recently published in the online edition of Nature included significant input by Brazilians.