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Your emotions change depending on the presence of certain smells
Publicado em 18 agosto 2022
An unprecedented research carried out at the University of São Paulo (USP) shows that odors influence not only our emotions, but interfere with our ability to interpret the emotions of other people around. At the study researchers demonstrate the relationship between facial expressions and odors.
Emotions are influenced by smell
Matheus Henrique Ferreira, a researcher at USP, says that there is a bilateral relationship between emotions and smells. In the study, the researcher [...]
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Acre is among states with high incidence of gestational malaria, says USP study
Publicado em 24 julho 2022A study carried out by researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) on the incidence of malaria among Brazilian pregnant women and published in the Lancet Regional Health – Americas journal, indicates that there was a reduction of approximately half of the cases between 2004 and 2018. reduction, municipalities in Acre are among the cities with a high incidence of gestational malaria. According to the researchers, the drop in rates is due to the expansion of the diagnosis and [...]ver notícia -
Sea sponge compounds may act against antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Publicado em 22 julho 2022A group led by researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP), in São Carlos, identified a series of bioactive compounds in a collected marine sponge in the Fernando de Noronha archipelago, in Pernambuco. Some substances have been shown to be able to kill bacteria resistant to currently available antibiotics, which paves the way for the development of new drugs. The study, supported by FAPESP, was published in the Journal of Natural Products. “This marine sponge had [...]ver notícia -
Survey maps the incidence of malaria in pregnant women
Publicado em 20 julho 2022Research at the University of São Paulo (USP) mapped the incidence of malaria in pregnant women in Brazil. The scope of the study makes the work unprecedented, considering that it was analyzed over a long period, from 2004 to 2018, and involves more than 60,000 women, based on data from the Malaria Epidemiological Surveillance System (Sivep-Malaria), from the Ministry of Health. Among the results found is the observation that the disease occurs more in pregnant women in municipalities in [...]ver notícia -
Noronha sea sponge can kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria
Publicado em 18 julho 2022A group led by researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP), in São Carlos, identified a series of bioactive compounds in a marine sponge collected in the Fernando de Noronha archipelago, in Pernambuco. Some substances have been shown to be able to kill bacteria resistant to currently available antibiotics which opens the way for the development of new drugs. The study, supported by the Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo [...]ver notícia -
Brazilian researchers discover enzymes to develop antibiotics
Publicado em 15 julho 2022In a review article published in the journal Free Radical Biology and Medicine, Brazilian researchers point to the system formed by proteins Ohr (an antioxidant enzyme) and OhrR (its transcription factor) as a potential target to be explored in the search for new antibiotics. The work was coordinated by Luis Netto, a professor at the Biosciences Institute of the University of São Paulo (IB-USP) and a member of the Research Center for Redox Processes in Biomedicine (Redoxoma) – a [...]ver notícia -
Study reveals how novel coronavirus manipulates cells to replicate
Publicado em 13 julho 2022By André Julião | Agência FAPESP – An articlepublishedin the journalFrontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiologyreports a study by researchers at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil showing how a human protein interacts with a SARS-CoV-2 protein, and describing one of the ways the virus that causes COVID-19 recruits cells to replicate. In laboratory tests, the researchers inhibited interaction between [...]ver notícia -
New York Academy of Medicine condemns 1964 work that treated homosexuality as a disorder : Revista Pesquisa Fapesp
Publicado em 12 julho 2022In July 1964, the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM), in the United States, published an official document classifying homosexuality as a disease. According to the document, prepared by the institution’s public health committee, homosexuals would be “emotionally disturbed individuals who have not acquired a normal capacity to develop satisfying heterosexual relationships”. The text at the time had wide repercussion in the North American press, it was harshly criticized by [...]ver notícia -
Brazilian startup develops tissue that inactivates coronavirus
Publicado em 09 julho 2022By starting to develop, in 2021, a biodegradable fabric capable of neutralizing bacteria and viruses, researchers at startup Protech, from São Carlos, initially envisioned an obvious market for the application of the material in times of a covid-19 pandemic: that of protective face masks. After participating in the 20th Pipe Empreendedor Program (High-Tech Entrepreneurship Training Program), the company’s founder, Thiers Massami Uehara, identified, however, that the technology [...]ver notícia -
Study warns of urgency of treatments against worms
Publicado em 03 julho 2022Worms, diseases that affect billions of people in the world, have few advances in clinical studies. Among the reasons for this to occur is the fact that they reach poorer populations, not attracting investments from pharmaceutical companies. The warning is in a study published in the Drug Discovery Today magazine by researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Guarulhos University, which has the support of the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). The work is [...]ver notícia