Brazil's first oncology biotech launches
... One of the antibodies in Receptas portfolio is expected to enter clinical trials this year. Internal review board permission has been granted by So Paulos Oswaldo Cruz German Hospital (HAOC), one of the centers of clinical excellence in Brazil, to conduct a...Selective logging causes widespread destruction of Brazil's Amazon rainforest, study finds
Selective logging--the practice of removing one or two trees and leaving the rest intact--is often considered a sustainable alternative to clear-cutting, in which a large swath of forest is cut down, leaving little behind except wood debris and a denuded landscape. ... ...But a new satellite survey of the Amazon Basin in Brazil reveals that every year unregulated selective logging of mahogany and...Satellite study doubles forest disturbance estimates in Brazilimpacts widespread
Stanford, CA. Results from a new large-scale, high-resolution satellite data analysis indicate that forest degradation in the Brazilian Amazon has been underestimated by half. The study, conducted by lead author, Dr. Greg Asner, of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology and colleagues, is published in the October 21, 2005, issue of Science, and has far-reaching ecological impacts...Brazil demonstrating that reducing tropical deforestation is key win-win global warming solution
Tropical deforestation is the source of nearly a fifth of annual, human-induced emissions of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. Recent studies by Woods Hole Research Center scientists demonstrate that during years of severe drought, tropical rainforest fires can double emissions from tropical forests. Now, an international team of forest and climate researchers has found that halving defores...Press registration -- World Congress of Nephrology, April 21-25, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The World Congress of Nephrology (April 21-25, 2007, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) represents a unique opportunity for the global nephrology community to come together, share and exchange ideas, and collectively address current and future challenges faced by renal clinicians and scientists. ......... Updating on all aspects of basic and clinical research and care of renal patients, one of the many hig...New species of snapper discovered in Brazil
... The international science journal Zootaxa announced the discovery of Lutjanus alexandrei, a new snapper species that belongs to the Lutjanidae family, by researchers Rodrigo Moura of Conservation International (CI) and Kenyon Lindeman of Environmental Defense. The study published in Zootaxa provides a revised key for identifying all Lutjanus species in the western Atlantic, along...Small-scale logging leads to clear-cutting in Brazilian Amazon
Stanford, CA-A team of scientists, led by Greg Asner of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, has discovered an important indicator of rain forest vulnerability to clear-cutting in Brazil. Their five-year study is the first to quantify the relationship between selective logging, where loggers extract individual trees from the rain forest, and complete deforestation, or clear-c...Brazil creates buffer zone around coral reefs off Atlantic coast
The Brazilian government has created an official buffer zone around the Abrolhos National Marine Park to protect the biologically richest coral reefs in the South Atlantic....... The buffer zone, created by Brazil's Institute of Environment and Natural Resources (IBAMA), encompasses nearly 95,000 square kilometers an area larger than Portugal and protects the entire Abrolhos region off Brazil's...International biodiversity meeting to take place in Brazil
The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity returns to its place of birth, Brazil, for the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties in late March. 187 countries and the European community will meet in the "Green" city of Curitiba, Brazil, to make progress on a set of interlinked issues which have as a goal, ensuring the foundation for sustainable development....... Among the top...United Nations Biosafety meeting to take place in Brazil
The five-day meeting of the treaty's governing body is scheduled to take a decision on the detailed documentation requirements for bulk shipments of genetically modified corn, soybean and other agricultural commodities that are intended for food, feed or processing. ...... Adopted in January 2000 as a supplementary agreement to the Convention on Biological Diversity Biosafety, the Biosafety Proto...Report shows deforestation threatens Brazil's Pantanal
Deforestation from increased grazing and agriculture has destroyed 17 percent of the native vegetation in Brazil's Pantanal, considered the world's largest wetland....... A new study published by Conservation International sounds an alarm for the Paraguay River Basin, which includes the Pantanal. Continued deforestation at the current rate would cause all of the Pantanal's original vegetation to...UGA's Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases receives grant to train Brazilian scientists
The Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases (CTEGD) at the University of Georgia has received a $1.2 million, five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Center to provide informatics training to Brazilian researchers. The grant will help a Brazilian ministry of health laboratory (the Centro de Pesquisas Ren Rachou FIOCRUZ) develop both the infrastructur...