Freshwater stingray venom varies according to sex and age

Center for Research on Toxins, Immune-Response and Cell Signaling

A study by the FAPESP-funded Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center shows that toxins produced by young female stingrays cause more pain, whereas toxins produced by adult stingrays cause tissue necrosis.

Applications open for School of Advanced Science on the Molecular Basis of Inflammatory Diseases

Center for Research on Inflammatory Diseases

Graduate students and researchers from any country have until June 23 to apply for this event, which is supported by FAPESP and will take place at the University of São Paulo’s Ribeirão Preto Medical School in Brazil.

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.