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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 20-Dec-2025 19:11 ET (21-Dec-2025 00:11 GMT/UTC)

Registrations open for São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Emerging Pollutants

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

School will tackle challenges to monitoring and regulation of these substances that pose sanitary and environmental threats through the use of pesticides, legal and illict drugs, micro(nano)plastics, etc. Applicants may submit until April 20.

Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Scientific cooperation is strategic for Brazil to strengthen relations with Europe

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

The state of São Paulo has three major partners in scientific collaboration here in Europe, which are Germany, the United Kingdom and France.

Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Even the mild form of COVID-19 tends to cause an imbalance in the cardiovascular system and requires attention

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

In a study of 130 volunteers conducted at the Federal University of São Carlos, a drastic decrease in heart rate variability, i.e. the heart’s ability to adapt to environmental and physiological demands, was observed – up to six weeks after infection.

Journal: Scientific Reports
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Caterpillar-like baby hummingbird discovered in Panama

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A baby hummingbird hatches. But it has fluffy feathers on its back, looking just like a dangerous caterpillar. Could this be something unusual among hummingbirds?

Journal: Ecology

Bezos Earth Fund and Smithsonian leap to the aid of endangered frog species

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Grant and Award Announcement

$2M from the Bezos Earth Fund to help save 25 frog species through conservation, rewilding, and disease prevention efforts.

Scientists discover new inhibitors of inflammation-related enzyme

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

Discovery by researchers at a FAPESP-supported research center could boost studies on the biological role of h15-LOX-2 and the development of new drugs.

Journal: Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Leafcutter ants recognize and fight pathogen even 30 days after initial contamination, study shows

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

Characteristics of social immune memory were observed in colonies of Atta sexdens exposed to four different pathogenic fungi. The insects increased their cleaning behavior one week and one month after initial contact, but not after 60 days.

Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B Biological Sciences
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Study shows that cannabidiol may be a promising agent for promoting dental biomineralization

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

In the experiment, cells from the dental pulp of mice were exposed to a cytokine called tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), which is involved in various inflammatory and autoimmune processes. They were then treated with different concentrations of cannabidiol for periods ranging from 24 hours to seven days.

Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Study identifies key protein in progression of glioblastoma, a type of brain tumor

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

In experiments conducted at the University of São Paulo, tumor stem cells became less able to proliferate and invade tissues when the production of the prion protein was blocked by gene editing; the results suggest that the molecule could be a therapeutic.

Journal: BMC Cancer
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Latin American intensivists denounce economic and cultural inequities in the global scientific publishing system

D'Or Institute for Research and Education
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from Brazilian, Argentine, and Uruguayan institutions analyze the barriers that low- and middle-income countries face in disseminating research on intensive care medicine, particularly in the treatment of critically ill patients. Published this month in The Lancet, the study highlights how historical and economic biases perpetuate inequalities and suggests changes to make the scientific publishing system more inclusive and representative of the global community.

Journal: The Lancet

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