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Uno de los mayores retos en la producción de biocombustibles de segunda generación consiste en identificar enzimas provenientes de microorganismos que, combinadas en un coctel enzimático, hagan viable la hidrólisis de la biomasa. Mediante este proceso, las enzimas actúan juntas para degradar y convertir hidratos de carbono de la paja y del bagazo de la caña de azúcar, por ejemplo, en azúcares sencillos, pasibles de fermentación. En [...]

In 2007, Marcelo Sousa, then still a student in his last year of physics at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) in Northeast Brazil, had to go to several hospitals in Fortaleza, state capital of Ceará, because of a disease in the family. The future physicist’s grandfather had cancer. Sousa believed he had to do something about the outdated treatment offered the patient, which in his opinion was based on nineteenth-century technology. “My grandfather’s [...]

Research conducted at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in São Paulo State, Brazil, shows that vigorous physical exercise such as strength and weight training can reduce accumulated liver fat and improve blood sugar control in obese and diabetic individuals in a short time span, even before significant weight loss occurs. In experiments with mice, researchers at UNICAMP's Molecular Biology of Exercise Laboratory (LaBMEx) found that two weeks of such exercise was sufficient to [...]

In experiments with mice, Brazilian scientists demonstrated that a moderate training protocol reduced liver fat and made the organ more sensitive to insulin, even before loss of body weight occurred Research conducted at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in São Paulo State, Brazil, shows that vigorous physical exercise such as strength and weight training can reduce accumulated liver fat and improve blood sugar control in obese and diabetic individuals in a short time span, even [...]

The tube anemone Isarachnanthus nocturnus is only 15 cm long but has the largest mitochondrial genome of any animal sequenced to date, with 80,923 base pairs. The human mitochondrial genome (mitogenome), for example, comprises 16,569 base pairs. Tube anemones (Ceriantharia) are the focus of an article recently published in Scientific Reports describing the findings of a study led by Sérgio Nascimento Stampar, a professor in São Paulo State University's School of Sciences and [...]

In experiments with mice, Brazilian scientists demonstrated that a moderate training protocol reduced liver fat and made the organ more sensitive to insulin, even before loss of body weight occurred Research conducted at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in São Paulo State, Brazil, shows that vigorous physical exercise such as strength and weight training can reduce accumulated liver fat and improve blood sugar control in obese and diabetic individuals in a short time span, even [...]