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Research for drugs against neglected diseases and malaria to receive BRL 43.5 million

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Business Announcement

The goal of the project with MMV is to identify a new anti-malarial molecule which can rapidly kill the parasite without rendering it susceptible to the development of drug resistance.

Funder: São Paulo State Research Support Foundation (Brazil). Geochronologic research at the MIT Isotope Lab, MMV Medicine for Malaria Ventures, DNDi Drugs for Neglected Diseases
Meeting: Research Technological Partnership: PITE-FAPESP Consortium

Theorem explains why quantities such as heat and power can fluctuate in microscopic system

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Brazilian researchers participate in theoretical study that could have practical applications in nanoscale machine optimization.

Journal: Physical Review Letters
Funder: São Paulo State Research Support Foundation (Brazil). Geochronologic research at the MIT Isotope Lab

A new world map rates food sustainability for countries across the globe

The Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A global food system sustainability study builds the first map of its kind to score the sustainability of food systems, country-by-country. The study goes beyond usual questions of productivity and nutrition, and includes economic and social variables.

Journal: Scientific Data

Agroecology is emerging as a new market for peasant farming

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a lecture given at FAPESP Week France, UNESP professor Bernardo Mançano Fernandes reports that socioterritorial movements are creating alternatives to agribusiness based on sustainable development and healthy food.

Mechanized harvesting has not reduced atmospheric pollution in the sugarcane region

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Data presented by a researcher from UNESP at FAPESP Week France indicate that aerosol and ozone particle concentrations in 2018 were equivalent to those of the period prior to the prohibition of burning; the causes are still to be investigated.

Meeting: FAPESP Week France

Discovery paves the way for blocking malaria transmission in Brazil

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Research that will be presented today at FAPESP Week France suggests that bacteria present in the intestine of the Anhopheles darlingi mosquito influence the development of the parasite that causes the disease in the insect's body and the chances of transmission to humans.

How does the prion protein clump? DNA-modulated liquid droplets may explain

Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia de Biologia Estrutural e Bioimagem (INBEB)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), in Brazil, have found that the prion protein (PrP) suffers liquid-liquid phase separation, and that this mechanism is finely controlled by some DNA sequences. This could explain the formation of irreversible clumping of PrP, structure responsible for neurodegenerative disorders, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Journal: The FASEB Journal

Niobium used as catalyst in fuel cell

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Glycerol fuel cell can replace batteries in cell phones and laptops, and could be used in future to run electric cars and supply power to homes.

Journal: ChemElectroChem
Funder: São Paulo State Research Support Foundation (Brazil). Geochronologic research at the MIT Isotope Lab

Black carbon found in the Amazon River reveals recent forest burnings

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

International study quantified and characterized charcoal and soot produced by incomplete burning of trees and transported by river to the Atlantic.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: About São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)

Study measures impact of agriculture on diet of wild mammals

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In an article published in PNAS, Brazilian researchers stress the need for agricultural management that favors the maintenance of wildlife.

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Funder: São Paulo State Research Support Foundation (Brazil). Geochronologic research at the MIT Isotope Lab