The main causes of death in Brazil and other Latin American countries are ischemic events such as heart attacks and strokes (image: Narupon Promvichai/Pixabay) “The leading causes of death in Brazil ...

Almost 70% of Brazil’s deep techs operate in the Southeast region, with São Paulo state accounting for 55%, thanks largely to the availability of funding, especially from FAPESP’s Innovative Research ...

Galindo is one of the most important living Brazilian linguists, a prizewinning translator and the author of a novel and a collection of short stories. He has also written for the theater. He ...

Preeclampsia was more frequent in pregnant women infected by SARS-CoV-2 and was associated with a heightened risk of complications and death. Differential diagnosis was a major clinical challenge at ...

Agência FAPESP – Registration is open until November 19 for the São Paulo School of Advanced Science in Structural Safety and its Role in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by the Built Environment, to ...

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* – 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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...