MyHeritage/Geni
[image: Geni] Home of the World Family Tree Dear Aloyzio, We are delighted to let you know that Geni will be participating in the first-ever MyHeritage user conference. MyHeritage LIVE will take place on the weekend of November 2-4, 2018 in Oslo, Norway and we’d love for you to attend.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
*Scientist Robbed of Nobel in 1974 Finally Wins $3 Million Physics Prize - And Gives It Away* [image: Scientist Robbed of Nobel in 1974 Finally Wins $3 Million Physics Prize — And Gives It Away] Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, shown here in 2011, discovered the radio pulsar when she was a graduate student. Credit: Colin McPherson/Corbis via Getty Images Jocelyn Bell Burnell is responsible for one of the most important astrophysics discoveries of the 20th century: the radio pulsar. The discovery, which she made as graduate student, earned a Nobel Prize in 1974. And it could one ... mais »
Busy Skies
[image: Researchers are working to reduce the threats posed by more than 20,000 objects in space.]
Flu vaccine
The ghost of influenza past and the hunt for a universal vaccine Your first bout of flu may determine how you fare during the next pandemic. That’s why scientists are trying to understand immunologic imprinting. by Declan Butler [image: Seattle policemen wearing protective gauze face masks during influenza epidemic of 1918] Police in Seattle, Washington, wear masks to protect themselves during the 1918 flu pandemic that killed nearly 50 million people. Credit: National Archives/Time Life/Getty By the time she is about three years old, a child has usually endured her first influenza i... mais »
Venki Ramakrishnan
A biologist’s road to the Nobel In his new book Gene Machine, structural biologist and Royal Society president Venki Ramakrishnan tells the story of his path to the Nobel Prize. He thoughtfully embeds his trajectory in a wider meditation on how scientists make the decisions that lead to success or failure — and on how they struggle to solve complex problems. Ramakrishnan credits his wife, artist Vera Rosenberry, with keeping him grounded; on hearing of his prize, she said, “I thought you had to be really smart to win one of those!” Nature | 6 min read
Metabolism
What I learned about weight loss from spending a day inside a metabolic chamberOne of science’s best tools for understanding obesity is debunking myths about metabolism. By Julia Belluz@juliaoftorontojulia.belluz@voxmedia.com Sep 4, 2018, 10:20am EDT Photographs and graphics by Christina Animashaun When scientists offer mice or rats a spread of junk food, they consistently find that only some overeat and puff out into little rodent blimps, while others maintain a normal body size. A similar thing happens in people. In the US, and around the world, we are now overwhelmed with highly p... mais »
Probiotics
Human Gut Study Questions Probiotic Health Benefitsby Neuroscience News According to researchers, probiotics may not be as effective as most believe. Researchers report many people's digestive tracts prevent standard probiotics from successfully colonizing them. Read more of this post
Exercise and AD
Exercise Generates New Neurons and Improves Cognition in Alzheimer’s: Mouse Studyby Neuroscience News Researchers report exercise can promote adult hippocampal neurogenesis and improve cognition in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease. The study identifies ways to mimic the beneficial effects of experience through pharmacological and gene therapy. Read more of this post
OLM cells in the hippocampus
Bravery Cells Found in the Hippocampusby Neuroscience News *OLM cells in the hippocampus* (*Oriens-lacunosum moleculare cells* are a major subclass of hippocampal interneurons involved in controlling synaptic plasticity) play a key role in risk taking behavior and anxiety, researchers report. Read more of this post *Neuroscience News* | September 7, 2018 at 6:07 am | Tags: bravery, OLM cells | URL: https://wp.me/p4sXNK-djM Comment See all comments[image: hippocampus] The participation of the hippocampus in emotions is much less studied than its role in memory and cognition. Neurosc... mais »
Before the Atoms
What Was It Like When The Universe First Made Atoms?It took hundreds of thousands of years to make atoms for the first time. If things were just a little different, it could have taken an eternity. ------------------------------ When it comes to our world, our Solar System, and everything we can see in our Universe, it’s all made up of the same ingredients: atoms. Electrons and atomic nuclei interact and link up to form not just individual atoms, but simple and complex molecules, some of which have given rise to macroscopic structures and even life. It’s one of the most impressive fac... mais »
Happier Aging
Why You Can Look Forward to Being Happier in Old Age Kluger is Editor at Large for TIME. If life wanted to mess with you, it couldn’t have come up with a better way than death. Especially the lead-up. Your strength flags; your world narrows; much of what once gave you pleasure and satisfaction is now gone. But as it turns out, happiness is still very much with you—often even more so than before. In some ways, our youth and middle years are really a sort of training period for the unanticipated pleasure of being an older adult, psychologist Alan D. Castel of the University of Californ... mais »
Slow Burn
EDITORIAL| VOLUME 392, ISSUE 10150, P796, SEPTEMBER 08, 2018 - PDF [724 KB] - Figures - Save - Share - - Slow burn: tobacco control in the Americas - The Lancet DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32066-X 13 years ago, the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) entered into force. A gargantuan effort to push the implementation of six measures—from monitoring of tobacco use to raising taxes on tobacco—the convention has been lauded as one of the most rapidly embraced treaties in UN history. However, it has also come under fire fo... mais »
The End of Life
A Perfect Death L. Michael Glode, MD, FACP, FASCO Aug 31, 2018 *Originally published on prost8blog; republished with permission.* This week in which the country will come together to mourn the passing of a true American original, John McCain, it might be worth considering our (your) own mortality. Even as the ongoing progress toward controlling prostate cancer is underway, it remains clear that “something else” will get us. As an example, in a study I was privileged to lead among patients with high-risk prostate cancer, *other* cancers (many of which were caused by our adjuvant m... mais »
Changing Climate
- *Recomendado pela AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja* [image: Protecting the Health and Well-Being of Communities in a Changing Climate: Proceedings of a Workshop] Protecting the Health and Well-Being of Communities in a Changing ClimateProceedings of a Workshop (2018) Proceedings E-mail this page Embed book widget Download Free PDFRead Online -
Probióticos
*SAÚDE* *Probióticos podem não ser tão eficazes quanto os cientistas acreditavam* Estudos recentes mostram que os probióticos, bactérias que reequilibram a flora intestinal, não funcionam da mesma maneira em todos os organismos
Million Hearts 2022
Million Hearts 2022 Small Steps Are Needed for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Janet S. Wright, MD1; Hilary K. Wall, MPH1; Matthew D. Ritchey, PT, DPT, OCS, MPH1 Author Affiliations Article Information JAMA. Published online September 6, 2018. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.13326 Despite decades-long improvement, recent evidence suggests that rates of myocardial infarction, stroke, and other cardiovascular disease (CVD) events have plateaued and are increasing among certain groups, including adults aged 35 to 64 years.1,2 These events are common, costly, and largely preventable. Million Heart... mais »
National Museums
Museum Digs Out a Future from Charred Scientific Ruins Brazil’s tragic fire sends a wake-up call to neglected national museums worldwide - By Richard Conniff on September 6, 2018 [image: Museum Digs Out a Future from Charred Scientific Ruins] Drone view of Rio de Janeiro's treasured National Museum, one of Brazil's oldest, on September 3, 2018, a day after a massive fire ripped through the building. *Credit: Mauro Pimentel Getty Images*With the hollowed-out shell of their old building standing in ruins nearby, and its history-rich contents in ashes, staff and scientists of Brazil’... mais »
A glimpse at the future
*Artigo de um querido colega (formado em 1961)que há muito tempo não encontramos. Enviado pelo AMICOR Reginaldo Hollanda Albuquerque (Brasília)* *Aglimpse at the future* *György Miklós Böhm*[image: corresponding author]a *Author information ►* *Copyright and License information ►* *Disclaimer* One should not try to guess what the future holds without considering the past. I state this only to justify my references to personal experiences in the Faculty of Medicine when intending to scrutinize the future that awaits the pathologists. (THIS SENTENCE IS NOT MINE. GMB) In the 1970s, the n...mais »
Opium Poppy>> Morphine
[image: poppy flower] FLOWER POWER The newly deciphered genome of the opium poppy is helping scientists figure out how the plant evolved the ability to make morphine and other similar painkilling molecules. TANJA NIGGENDIJKER/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS (CC BY 2.0) - mail - Print - Twitter - Facebook - Reddit - Google+ A draft of the poppy’s genetic instruction book is providing clues to how the plant evolved to produce molecules such as morphine. Scientists pieced together the genome of the opium poppy (*Papaver somniferum*). Then, they identified a cluster of 15 close-tog... mais »
Metformin to cure aging?
The Safe, Boring, and Extremely Cheap Drug That Could Cure Aging Forget Silicon Valley biotech wonderdrugs. Leading gerontologists are making a historic bet on metformin. [image: Go to the profile of Lissa Harris] Lissa Harris Follow Sep 5 Old age is, we know, a gauntlet of chronic illness that almost no one gets through without some deep unpleasantness. Most people who reach the upper end of the average human lifespan begin, at some point, to accumulate diseases. For the most lethal maladies of the elderly — heart disease and cancer — the relationship between age and disease is logar... mais »
Assisted Pregnancies
[image: newsletter image] NEWS Teens born from assisted pregnancies may have higher blood pressure Sep 05 2018 6:00 AM Kids born from reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization are susceptible to high blood pressure as adolescents, a small study finds.
Bolita, Gude, Búrico...
*EM VEJA DESTA SEMANA* *Sociedade Americana de Pediatria recomenda: brincar é um remédio* Para entidade, profissionais devem receitar brincadeiras, como as de antigamente, às crianças *Lembrei-me da Dra. Valderês que dizia que quando criança na escola gostava de ir ao pátio dos meninos por que eles jogavam bolita...*
Criminal Mind
Does Neuroscience Hold the Key to Understanding the Criminal Mind?by Neuroscience News According to a new study those with higher criminal tendencies choose to take risks and gamble more than law abiding citizens. Read more of this post
Museu Imperial do RJ
Why Brazil's Museum Fire Matters Its behind-the-scenes collections, like those of all major natural history museums, was vital to scientific research - By Sabrina Sholts on September 5, 2018 [image: Why Brazil's Museum Fire Matters] *Credit: Getty Images* This week, as the National Museum of Brazil filled with fire, the world learned about its vast holdings: over 20 million pieces of our history since the Pleistocene. These items—most of them now destroyed—included sarcophagi from Egypt, frescos from Pompeii, one of the oldest human skeletons found in Americas, and the largest ... mais »
The Book of Beetles
*Today's selection -- from The Book of Beetles, edited by Patrice Bouchard.* Beetles are one of the most prevalent creatures on Earth, with over 400,000 separate species, or one in five of the species on the planet. The name "beetle" comes from the Old English bitula, or "little biter." Many societies throughout history have held beetles in high regard.: "Beetles have long occupied prominent places in our mythologies and in arts and crafts. The Sacred Scarab (*Scarabaeus sacer*) is the best-known beetle of mythology. Images of scarabs commonly appeared in funerary art and hieroglyph... mais »
GH Horizons (03/12/2018)
*Encaminhado AMICOR Maria Inês Reinert Azambuja* Save with Early Bird rates before 22 October. Open as a webpage *Global Health programme is now live!* Join us on 3 December 2018 at the *Global Health Conference: Learning from the past, looking to the future* and join over 150 global leaders, current/future partners, RCP members and fellows to explore some of the biggest opportunities and challenges in the field, and be inspired by our recently announced speakers. The programme will challenge some of the key questions in global health today. We'll consider: - How we find a sol... mais »
Eduardo Belardinelli Achutti
*Nosso neto Eduardo na Itália. Joga no meio campo do Mazolla Valdarbia, Siena.*
New Type of Neuron
A New Type of Neuron Lurks in the Human Brain, and We Have No Idea What It DoesBreak out your botanical dictionary. You’re going to need it. Photo: Yves Forestier/Sygma via Getty Images *By Neel V. Patel* The human brain is one of the most complex structures ever to evolve on this planet, but we’re still barely able to understand exactly what sets it apart. We may be a little closer to figuring it out, thanks to a study published Monday in the journal *Nature Neuroscience* that reports a new type of brain cell — one unique to human beings. It’s called the rosehip neuron, and they co... mais »
Crônica da chuva - há 85 anos
As quadras e o pequeno pavilhão social do Avenida Tênis Clube, eram importantes espaços para convívio social e esportivo de jovens santa-marienses, nas primeiras décadas do século XX. O clube estava então instalado na Praça da República, na área hoje ocupada pelo Corpo de Bombeiros. Nos anos 30, as alegres tardes de jogos e as reuniões dançantes cumpriam a finalidade que fora desejada pelas fundadoras, em 1917. Uma crônica publicada no *Diario do Interior*, em 2.9.1933, sábado, assinada com o pseudônimo de “Nicia”, revela sentimentos de frustração e desalento durante quatro dias de... mais »
Healthy environmens
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