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Researchers from the University of São Paulo showed that the coronavirus infection rate among professional football players in the state of São Paulo topped 11.7 percent throughout the 2020 season — levels equivalent to those seen in frontline health workers. The study analyzed almost 30,000 RT-PCR Covid-19 test samples on over 4,200 players from over eight different tournaments. According to medicine professor Bruno Gualano, the contamination level is higher than those [...]

Researchers at the University of São Paulo have identified proteins in the blood of Covid-19 patients that may suggest whether they are more prone to developing severe coronavirus infections. The study collected plasma samples from 163 patients admitted to Bauru State Hospital between May and July last year. The scientists found distinct changes between the groups in plasma proteins related to blood coagulation, antimicrobial humoral response, acute inflammatory response, and [...]

You’re reading The Brazilian Report’s weekly tech roundup, a digest of the most important news on technology and innovation in Brazil. This week’s topics: the boom of cryptocurrencies, new regulations for crowdfunding investments in Brazil, and N26’s planned arrival in the country. The news that the price of bitcoin topped the USD 40,000 mark has rekindled investors’ interest in cryptocurrencies around the world. And in Latin America, investors’ drive is not [...]

Responsible for losses estimated at BRL 5 billion each harvest, the greatest threat to sugarcane farming in Brazil is an insect measuring just over 20 millimeters long: the Diatraea saccharalis moth in its larval phase, better known as the ‘sugarcane drill.’ To combat the pest, São Paulo company PangeiaBiotech has developed an innovative solution, using even smaller organisms and genetic engineering tools. The startup is developing genetically modified strains of sugarcane [...]

You’re reading The Brazilian Report’s weekly tech roundup, a digest of the most important news on technology and innovation in Brazil. This week’s topics: how the instant payments industry will fare in 2021. A new IoT law could boost hires in Brazil. And the Justice system’s efforts to go digital. One of the biggest innovations in 2020, the Brazilian Central Bank’s instant payments system PIX has proven to be a hit. During its first month of operation, 46.1 [...]

Brazil’s National Telecommunications Institute (Inatel), a research and education center in the field of engineering, put the finishing touches on an innovative radio communication apparatus back in April. LTE Network-in-a-Box is capable of supporting private wireless networks in remote areas, using the Long Term Evolution (LTE) communication standard, better known as 4G. These wireless networks allow for the transmission of data and voice, facilitating the connection of machinery and [...]

The University of São Paulo and São Paulo’s Research Support Foundation (Fapesp) have just announced Brazil’s first data repository to demographic data and anonymous lab exams for Covid-19 patients, in an attempt to provide valuable information for researchers studying the disease. The initiative — called Covid-19 Data Sharing/BR — hosts data from 75,000 patients, 6,500 health outcomes and more than 1.6 million clinical and lab exams, collected since [...]

Interrupting family planning services in Brazil due to Covid-19 could cause a boom in unwanted pregnancies and bring consequences for mothers and babies, as the effects of the disease on fetuses are still unknown, warn Brazilian researchers Luis Bahamondes and Maria Y. Makuch, from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Campinas Medical School. The researchers published an open letter in The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care, saying [...]

Scientists have found that the genome of the coronavirus sample collected from the first patient diagnosed in Brazil is different from that of the second confirmed patient in the country. In addition, they are also different from the sequencing done on patients in China. This was confirmed by research carried out by scientists at the Adolf Lutz Institute in partnership with the Tropical Medicine Institute of the University of São Paulo, with support from the Research Support Foundation [...]