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Experiments with rats show that sleeping less than necessary during pregnancy may impair renal development in offspring and predispose them to disease.

Composition uses software to distribute sound elements to a system of independent loudspeakers according to precise spatial trajectories.

Study shows that investment in research, expansion of mechanization and focus on production of commodities were some of the factors that contributed to this leap.

Findings were published in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Another article, published in American Journal of Transplantation, reports manifestations of Zika in transplant recipients.

Brazilian and US researchers present results of trials showing that three different candidate Zika vaccines protected rhesus monkeys against the disease.

Compound controls rise in blood pressure in cases associated with sympathetic hyperactivity. Results of preclinical trials are published in Nature Medicine.

Research shows sexual selection may also have contributed to an evolutionary shift in frogs' reproductive modes, with some species preferring to breed on land.

São Paulo Research Foundation's investment in scientific and technological research increased 3.1% in 2015.

Diaphorina citri, the insect that transmits the most serious threat to orange groves in Brazil and worldwide, is repelled by essential oils found in three species of Citrus.

Nanotubes dispersed in liquid crystal were rearranged using electrical signals to act as a nanocircuit. The study opens up a whole new field of research and application in electronic circuits.

Some 130,000 blue stars in the Galaxy's halo were observed by researchers at the University of São Paulo, in collaboration with colleagues in the United States. The results were published in Nature Physics.

Emerson Franchini ranks third worldwide in terms of the number of scientific articles on Olympic sports published in indexed journals in the past 15 years.

Researcher examines how Portuguese-speaking African writers such as Mia Couto absorbed landscapes, characters and innovative language from Brazilian literature.

Preliminary findings from research conducted under the aegis of the Zika Network were presented at the annual meeting of Brazil's Federation of Experimental Biology Societies.

The molecular mechanisms by which luciferase emits greenish light in fireflies and reddish light in beetles have been unveiled by Brazilian researchers in collaboration with a Japanese scientist.

The peptide hemopressin inhibits pain and assists recovery of peripheral nerves in mice.

Study estimates that public money invested in agriculture through higher education, research and extension in São Paulo State, Brazil, yields a tenfold return to the state's economy.

The hypothesis was investigated at the University of São Paulo by Denise Morais da Fonseca, a prizewinner of the 11th edition of "Awards For Women in Science".

The virus can remain active in a newborn's body for two months, according to detailed study by Brazilian researchers published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Results of experiments with mice have been published by Brazilian researchers in The Journal of Physiology.

Peptide fragments marked with a radioactive isotope are evaluated as biomarkers of the degenerative process that leads to neuron death.

Resistance to the movement of the tip of an atomic force microscope varies by up to 80% depending on scanning direction. This discovery is expected to contribute to nanodevice production.

Synthetic analogs of a molecule extracted from Piper malacophyllum displayed up to 40 times the potency of standard drugs used against the protozoans that cause Chagas disease and visceral leishmaniasis.

Article by Brazilian researchers in The Journal of Clinical Pharmacology finds benefits of new therapeutic scheme to be equivalent to daily dose, with a lower risk of gastrointestinal complications.

The new species are dogfishes belonging to the genus Squalus. They are roughly 70 cm long and weigh about 4 kg. Their habitat begins where the continental shelf ends and extends into the abyssal depths of the ocean.

Researchers deploy mass spectrometry imaging to identify and quantify compounds present in drugs, cosmetics and foods quickly, cheaply and without toxic waste.

Analysis of whole thymic tissue samples showed that changes in gene co-expression networks cause primary immune deficiency in these patients.

International consortium of public health research agencies supports research on chronic non-communicable diseases. FAPESP has also joined GloPID-R, a global research network that focuses on infectious diseases.

Results could lead to methods for detecting HIV and eliminating viruses in blood bags.

Study points to friction caused by contact with "void" as one of the energy-loss mechanisms affecting these ultracompact astrophysical bodies.