FAPESP

São Paulo Research Foundation[1] (FAPESP, Portuguese: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) is a public foundation located in São Paulo, Brazil, with the aim of providing grants, funds and programs to support research, education and innovation of private and public institutions and companies in the state of São Paulo. It was founded in 1962 and is maintained by endowments by the State government which are guaranteed as a fixed percentage of the State's tax income, besides the income generated by the financial fruition of its considerable assets.

Website: http://www.fapesp.br/en/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Paulo_Research_Foundation

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Evolution

Research shows we're surprisingly similar to Earth's first animals

The earliest multicellular organisms may have lacked heads, legs, or arms, but pieces of them remain inside of us today, new research shows.

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Earth Sciences

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Environment

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Engineering

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Neuroscience

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Bio & Medicine

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Researchers at the UAB have designed minimalist biostructures that imitate natural enzymes, capable of carrying out two differentiated and reversibly regulated activities thanks to a unique combination of structural and functional ...

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Environment

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Cell & Microbiology

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General Physics

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