News from Latin America

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20-Nov-2020

Adipose tissue may be the source of inflammatory factors that aggravate COVID-19

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

Preliminary results of patient tissue analysis show that the virus infects adipocytes and alters the quantity of signaling molecules released by these cells into the bloodstream.

Journal

Advances in Nutrition

Funder

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

19-Nov-2020

Plastic film used to protect foods and surfaces inactivates novel coronavirus

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

In laboratory tests, the material eliminated 79.9% of SARS-CoV-2 particles in three minutes and 99.99% in up to 15 minutes (photo: Alpes).

Funder

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

18-Nov-2020

Study confirms contribution of bioenergy to climate change mitigation

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

Across-border team of researchers refute arguments that carbon debt, opportunity cost and indirect land-use change prevent greenhouse gas mitigation by biofuels.

Journal

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Funder

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

17-Nov-2020

Non-hereditary mutation acts as natural gene therapy in patient with rare disease

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

Scientists at a research center supported by FAPESP identified a non-inherited mutation in blood cells from a patient with GATA2 deficiency that may have prevented bone marrow failure and other clinical manifestations.

Journal

Blood

Funder

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

16-Nov-2020

Better than money? In-kind payments incentivize farmers to conserve agrobiodiversity

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

An innovative payment scheme for ecosystem services successfully encouraged farmers to cultivate and conserve agrobiodiversity, according to a new study of eight years of implementation in Latin America

Journal

Land Use Policy

16-Nov-2020

Discovery of protein's 'Achilles heel' paves way for novel class of anti-HIV drugs

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

it is increasingly clear how Nef manages to subvert human cells' defense mechanisms, enabling HIV to replicate and bringing the symptoms of AIDS closer.

Journal

Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

Funder

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

13-Nov-2020

Two anti-inflammatory compounds shown to be capable of accelerating recovery from COVID-19

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

Monoclonal antibody tested by researchers at University of São Paulo and experimental drug given to patients in Italy by University of Pennsylvania research group promoted rapid improvement of respiratory function in patients hospitalized in severe condition.

Journal

Clinical Immunology

Funder

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

12-Nov-2020

Research produces intense light beams with quantum correlations

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

Potential applications of research conducted at the University of São Paulo include high-precision metrology and information encoding.

Journal

Physical Review Letters

Funder

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

11-Nov-2020

These masked singers are bats

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Bats wear face masks, too. Bat researchers got lucky, observing wrinkle-faced bats in a lek, and copulating, for the first time.

Journal

PLOS One

11-Nov-2020

Studies detail impact of mammal species decline in Neotropics

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

Group led by Brazilian ecologist shows defaunation wiped out 40% of the ecosystem services provided or supported by mammals, such as ecotourism, disease control and soil formation. Large-bodied mammals are disappearing fastest.

Journal

Ecosystem Services

Funder

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