Devices help predict seizures and treat patients with epilepsy

Brazilian Research Institute for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology

Implantable devices which could improve the quality of patients’ lives – Australian-made and still under tests – were presented to the congress of BRAINN, a FAPESP-funded Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center.

Enzyme may indicate predisposition to cardiovascular disease

Center for Research on Redox Processes in Biomedicine

Study suggests that people with low levels of PDIA1 in blood plasma may be at high risk of thrombosis; this group also investigated PDIA1’s specific interactions in cancer.

Biochemical compound responsible for blood pressure drop in sepsis is discovered

Center for Research on Redox Processes in Biomedicine

International research group demonstrates the involvement of singlet molecular oxygen in vasodilation, causing a sharp decline in blood pressure in severe inflammatory processes such as sepsis.

Innovative technology to treat skin cancer awaits approval by Brazil’s national health service

Optics and Photonics Research Center

The Center for Research in Optics and Photonics, supported by FAPESP, has developed a device for the noninvasive treatment of nonmelanoma skin cancer, the most frequent type worldwide.