An article on the study, which was supported by FAPESP, is published in the journal PeerJ Life & Environment. Flea toads, as some species in the genus Brachycephalus are known, are less than 1 cm long ...

Agência FAPESP – Lucia Helena Mascaro, professor at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) and research director of the Center for the Development of Functional Materials (CDMF), was one of the ...

Agência FAPESP* – Tooth demineralization is a major health problem whose main cause is poor oral hygiene and the consequent accumulation of bacterial plaque on the teeth. It is a progressive process ...

An article on the study is published in the journal Muscle & Nerve. It is worth recalling that mitochondria, the organelles that produce energy for cells, have their own DNA (mtDNA), which is ...

Hubble Space Telescope image of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300, one of the morphological twins of the Milky Way studied in this project. The bar is one of its most prominent features. Spiral structures ...

“The potential for collaboration with Brazil is huge, and the possibilities are very positive. The British government is known to support relations between Brazil and the UK via partnerships between ...

Ten individuals diagnosed with Parkinson’s and 11 neurologically healthy individuals participated in the study. All participants were over 60 and were submitted to tests that involved standing still ...

Agência FAPESP* – The Transfer and Dissemination team at the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM) has mapped the so-called “informal green spaces” in the São Paulo Metropolitan Region (SPMR) in ...

Observation of the family that lives in the Barreiro Rico Ecological Station, a state conservation unit created in 2006, is not easy for humans: we humans lost the ability to swing through the forest ...

Many species were described in the twentieth century when few traits were thought necessary to differentiate species, and the molecular tools used today to compare one or more genes did not exist. For ...

“In the short term, insomniacs will suffer from somnolence, fatigue and irritability, for example. When sleep quality improves with the aid of psychotherapy, on the other hand, the experience becomes ...

Agência FAPESP – Representatives of FAPESP visited leaders of the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) in Alexandria, Virginia, on September 19. The purpose of the meeting was to align ...