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A consortium comprised by firms Braskem, AplFilm and Nanox and the UFSCar (Brazil) and Jaume I of Castellón (Spain) universities have launched a plastic film able to deactivating 99.99% of the new coronavirus in quarter-hour. The new product known as AlpFilm Protect PVC is already accessible on the market. The scientific collaboration initiated 15 years in the past between the UFSCar and UJI with firm Nanox had already developed in 2014 a product with antifungal and bactericidal [...]

Incubated on the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) within the state of São Paulo, Brazil, and supported by São Paulo Research Foundation- FAPESP’s Innovative Research in Small Business Program (PIPE), BIOinFOOD is a startup that’s growing a speedy COVID-19 diagnostic test based mostly on a patent utility filed by college students at UNICAMP’s Genomics and Bioenergy Laboratory. The test relies on a biosensor consisting of a genetically modified brewer’s [...]

One Volta’s electric eel is scary enough. It can subdue small fish with an 860-volt jolt. Now imagine more than 100 of them swirling about, unleashing coordinated electric attacks. Such a sight was assumed to be only the stuff of nightmares. These critters aren’t actually eels. A type of knifefish, they belong to the species Electrophorus voltai. Researchers had long thought they were solitary, nocturnal hunters. The fish tend to use their electric sense to find smaller [...]

The White-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari) is a boar-like hoofed mammal found throughout Central and South America. These animals roam the forest in bands of 50 to 100 individuals, eating a wide variety of foods. In Brazil’s Atlantic Rainforest, they prefer the fruit of the jussara palm Euterpe edulis. The jussara is very abundant in this biome, probably thanks to vast amounts of dung, urine, and soil trampling by peccaries as well as tapirs (Tapirus terrestris) and other fruit-eating [...]

Deep in the Brazilian Amazon River basin, scientists led by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History fish research associate C. David de Santana discovered a small, river-fed lake filled with more than 100 adult electric eels, many of which were upwards of 4 feet long. On its own, this was an intriguing discovery, electric eels—a type of knifefish rather than true eels—were thought to be solitary creatures. But in this lake along the banks of the Iriri River in [...]

The black lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysopygus) once inhabited most forest areas in the state of São Paulo, Southeast Brazil, but currently occupies only some Atlantic Rainforest remnants there. In recent years, after various studies of the endangered species, environmental NGO Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas (IPÊ) moved groups of these animals to areas from which the species had disappeared. Similar initiatives have now been reinforced by a group of researchers at [...]