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1-Jun-2023

Tackling global problems requires international collaboration and this underscores the strategic role of the GRC

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

Representatives from 81 research funding agencies from 63 countries are meeting this week in The Hague, in the Netherlands, for the Annual Meeting of the Global Research Council. The event will discuss topics that will help shape the future of research around the world.

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31-May-2023

The quest for equity and inclusion in the research ecosystem has moved beyond the gender issue

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

This working group promoted on Tuesday (May 30) a panel with leaders of research funding agencies from four countries. The participants had the opportunity to exchange views on the topic and report on the initiatives their institutions have been developing to promote equality and inclusion in their local research ecosystems.

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31-May-2023

Funders discuss how to foster scientific collaboration amid growing geopolitical tensions

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

The Annual Meeting of the GRC – an entity that brings together more than 60 research funding agencies from all continents – continues until June 2 in The Hague. The organizers of the 2023 edition are the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) and FAPESP.

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31-May-2023

Study associates sleep apnea in babies with increased risk of hypertension in adulthood

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

In experiments involving rats, researchers at São Paulo State University found that periods of low oxygen levels in the first months of life can lead to dysregulation of the sympathetic autonomic nervous system, which controls functions such as heart rate and blood pressure. The discovery points to possible routes to the development of novel therapies.

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SLEEP

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30-May-2023

Research project analyzes medical, nutritional and environmental applications of new Antarctic bacteria

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

Discovered by Uruguayan scientists in 2013, two psychrophilic (cold-adapted) species have been experimented with since 2018 by a partnership between IIBCE in Montevideo and the University of São Paulo in Brazil.

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25-May-2023

Toxins are detected in samples of curd cheese and artisan mozzarella in Brazil

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

An analysis conducted at the University of São Paulo showed that no sample exceeded the recommended limit for aflatoxin M1, a contaminant of fungal origin considered carcinogenic. Nevertheless, the researchers warn of the need to demand best practices in dairy production.

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Toxins

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24-May-2023

In resistance training, focusing on load or number of repetitions leads to same muscle growth

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study by researchers at the State University of Campinas showed that although the two types of training produce similar metabolic stress, muscle activation is different.

Journal

Metabolites

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23-May-2023

Scientists from the Global South innovate to track ongoing amphibian pandemic

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists from India, Panama and Australia collaborated in the development and validation of an assay that could be used to diagnose Indian strains of the amphibian chytrid fungus that were not detected by previous tests. The novel assay also works for other better-known strains from other parts of the world, such as the one present in Panama.

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Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

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University Grants Commission, Central Zoo Authority, Australian Academy of Science, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, India, Peter Schweinsberg, Rutgers University

23-May-2023

Leishmania parasite manipulates organism’s defense system to continue replicating, study shows

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

The findings of the study reported in the article offer hope for the development of novel treatments for the disease. Some 30,000 new cases of leishmaniasis are notified annually, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), many of them in Brazil, and there are no specific medications or vaccines to combat the disease.

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Nature Communications

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22-May-2023

Study points out errors in illustrations of one of the most famous scientific experiments

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

Described by Benjamin Franklin in the mid-eighteenth century, the kite experiment was an important step toward our modern understanding of electricity, but the pictures that popularized this episode are full of inaccuracies.

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Science & Education

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