News from Latin America
Updates every hour. Last Updated: 6-Jun-2025 19:09 ET (6-Jun-2025 23:09 GMT/UTC)
6-Jun-2025
Mabe Bio: Brazilian biodiversity gives rise to new textile materials
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Startup supported by FAPESP develops promising sustainable solution from native flora; angico biotissue will be presented at VivaTech in France.
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- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
5-Jun-2025
Coral Art: Drawing out the secrets of coral reef resilience to high ocean temperatures
Smithsonian Tropical Research InstitutePeer-Reviewed Publication
Researchers compared DNA from corals and their symbiotic organisms from two sites along the Pacific coast of Panama to better understand how the different members of the coral holobiont influence their ability to tolerate temperature extremes.
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- Current Biology
5-Jun-2025
USP and FAPESP bring innovative technologies to international startup fair in France
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloMeeting Announcement
VivaTech is one of Europe's leading technology and startup events; USP and FAPESP will take researchers and disruptive technologies to the event in the areas of health, agriculture, sustainability, and artificial intelligence.
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- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
5-Jun-2025
Ocellott: Solutions for aircraft electrification and ‘flying cars’
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
The FAPESP-supported company is developing critical equipment to make electric and hybrid aircraft models and eVTOLs viable; these technologies will be presented at VivaTech in France. The company’s line of emergency batteries can be used in Embraer aircraft as well as in jets produced by other manufacturers.
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- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
5-Jun-2025
Wearable device helps blind people detect obstacles
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloPeer-Reviewed Publication
System integrated into a backpack is equipped with a camera and tactile signals that vibrate to warn of the presence of objects above the waist.
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- Disability and Rehabilitation
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- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
4-Jun-2025
Biotech develops technology to produce milk proteins without cows
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Future Cow uses precision fermentation to create dairy ingredients in a sustainable way; the startup, supported by FAPESP, was selected to participate in VivaTech, one of Europe’s largest innovation.
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- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
4-Jun-2025
Self-harm in adolescence: young people report on strategies to alleviate mental suffering in a booklet
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloPeer-Reviewed Publication
The publication, which resulted from a project conducted at the Federal University of São Carlos, is available in Portuguese and English and has the potential to be an important, low-cost therapeutic and educational tool.
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- New Trends in Qualitative Research
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- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
3-Jun-2025
Study identifies proteins involved in the effectiveness of immunotherapy against blood cancer
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloPeer-Reviewed Publication
Researchers at a FAPESP-supported research center have discovered 14 proteins that could be targets for improving CAR-T cell-based therapies.
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- Journal of Proteome Research
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- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
30-May-2025
Green technology uses corn stover to produce high-value bioderivatives and generate savings
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São PauloPeer-Reviewed Publication
The optimized extraction of sugars, organic acids, and phenolic compounds with antioxidant, antimicrobial, and anti-inflammatory properties uses only water, making it promising for applications in the biofuels, pharmaceutical, and food industries.
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- Biofuel Research Journal
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- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo