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Research Highlights
Nutrition Researchers use nanotechnology to boost benefits of anthocyanin
This pigment with antioxidant and anticancer properties breaks down easily in the gastrointestinal tract. To enhance its bioavailability, researchers at USP developed pectin-coated nanocapsules.
Agronomy Innovations elevate Brazilian coffee
New cultivation techniques and improved analyses highlight the aroma and flavor of the most consumed nonalcoholic drink in the country.
Innovation World’s first ethanol-to-hydrogen conversion plant completed at the University of São Paulo
The fuel produced at the experimental station will power three city buses that will circulate around the university campus, as well as a bus that can drive 450 Km from São Paulo to Piracicaba and back.
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Brazil dries up
Climate change gives rise to a region with an arid climate, previously non-existant in the country.
Supercomputers Capable of complex operations, machines enable to investigate matters such as the effects of deforestation on climate and Milky Way evolution.
Teacher blackout To improve its basic education, Brazil needs to renew undergraduate courses that prepare students to teach, as well as to create policies that make the teaching career attractive.
Field Diary – Negro River series Agência FAPESP followed the DEGy Negro River Expedition in search for I. caiana, an electric fish species whose only four specimen known to science were collected in 1968 at an inaccurately-described site.
Public Health Increasingly widespread use of antibiotics fosters the appearance of superbacteria defying science and health systems.
PublicationS
FAPESP Annual Activity Report - 2023
In 2023, FAPESP approved 56 proposals to purchase large items of research
equipment resulting from three calls issued in 2022 and corresponding to an aggregate investment of $ PPP 184.4 million.
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