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3-Jul-2023

Study suggests resistance training can prevent or delay Alzheimer’s disease

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

Experiments involving mice and conducted by Brazilian researchers showed four weeks of training with weights to be sufficient to reverse behavioral and physical alterations characteristic of the disease.

Journal

Frontiers in Neuroscience

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3-Jul-2023

Study shows Kant’s influence on Georges Canguilhem, who anticipated concepts current in medicine today

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

Contrary to the predominant view held since the eighteenth century, the French philosopher and physician saw the organism as a totality interacting with its environment rather than a mere aggregation of parts whose functioning depended only on the right amount of organic substances.

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30-Jun-2023

 

COVID-19 sequelae are the highlights of a neuroscience conference at the State University of Campinas

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Meeting Announcement

Brazilian researchers analyzed data from MRI scans and various tests to detect biological alterations linked to the neurological symptoms most reported by patients, especially anxiety, depression, sleepiness and fatigue. The latest results were presented to the ninth edition of BRAINN Congress.

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29-Jun-2023

 

Brazilian Amazon: Deforestation in Indigenous Territories caused emission of 90 million metric tons of CO2 in 2013-21

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists analyzed data from 232 Indigenous Territories for the period. Results published in Scientific Reports show deforestation rates accelerating between 2019 and 2021.

Journal

Scientific Reports

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27-Jun-2023

Propolis improves immunity, reduces free radicals and attenuates chronic inflammation in HIV patients

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

A study of 40 asymptomatic subjects living with HIV conducted at São Paulo State University showed that a daily dose of 500 mg was safe and helped combat premature aging

Journal

Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy

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21-Jun-2023

Laser therapy is most effective treatment for tinnitus, study finds

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

Brazilian researchers compared the therapies used most frequently for tinnitus, which affects some 750 million worldwide.

Journal

Journal of Personalized Medicine

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21-Jun-2023

 

Study proposes simple low-cost solutions to improve thermal comfort in social housing

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

The best design in terms of thermal comfort combined three simple, cheap and sustainable solutions: replacing conventional windows with fully openable tilting windows; replacing brick walls with monolithic expanded polystyrene walls; and replacing ordinary window glass with green-tinted tempered glass.

Journal

Sustainability

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20-Jun-2023

Brazilian fossil provides earliest evidence of evolutionary trait that enabled dinosaurs to become giants

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

Bone cavities called air sacs appeared in the ancestors of long-necked dinosaurs about 225 million years ago, according to the analysis of a specimen found in Rio Grande do Sul state, South Brazil. The study also shows that air sacs did not evolve as linearly as scientists believe.

Journal

The Anatomical Record

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19-Jun-2023

Green technology permits total use of seaweed by cosmetics industry

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

A review article goes beyond international standards to propose zero waste methodologies in the production of natural assets from marine organisms.

Journal

Phycology

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15-Jun-2023

 

A new path for quantum physics to control chemical reactions

Millenium Institute for Research in Optics
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The study published in the journal Science reported for the first time how to manipulate the formation rate of molecules in optical cavities. Researchers from the US Naval Research Laboratory and the Millennium Institute for Optics Research at the University of Santiago carried out this experimental and theoretical research.

Journal

Science