The straight heart tube is formed by ventral midline fusion of myocardial and endothelial cells that differentiate from the bilateral primary heart fields located in the lateral plate mesoderm. Cardiac differentiation is initiated in response to an inductive signal from the anterior endoderm (Schultheiss et al., 1995). Expression of smooth muscle α actin and Nkx2.5 in the primary heart fields c...

Researcher with the Coordinating Group on Sociodiversity in Health at Leônidas e Maria Deane Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Manaus Rua Teresina 476 69057-070 Adrianópolis — AM [email protected] SANTOS, F. V. dos: “Gold earrings, calico skirts”: images of women and their role in the project to civilize the Amazon, as observed by Elizabeth Agassiz in Viagem ao Brasil: 1865-1866. História, Ciências,...

Current and former students of the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fiocruz interviewed German historian Stefan Rinke, of the Freie Universität Berlin, who specializes in examining the historical development of Latin America as it fits into the international context. Rinke's work uses dimensions such as economic and diplomatic relations, migratory flows, and ethnic conflict as tools in his analyses of the ...

A novel P(NMe2)3-mediated reductive [1+4] annulation reaction between isatins and enones has been developed, providing the facile synthesis of spirooxindole-dihydrofurans. This reaction unveils the first practical approach to construct five-membered cyclic motifs via a Kukhtin-Ramirez adduct involved [1+4] annulation mode.

Carolina Cruz-Neira 1, Marcos Fernández 2 and Cristina Portalés 2,* ID 1 Emerging Analytics Center, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2801 South University Ave, Little Rock, AR 72204, USA; [email protected] 2 Institute of Robotics and Information and Communication Technologies (IRTIC), Universitat de València, 46980 València, Spain; [email protected] * Correspondence: cristina.portales@...

The Special Committee on Merit Equity was constituted by the UCSC academic senate to determine whether there was evidence that salary inequities exist for women and minority faculty members on campus. To answer this question, the committee examined personnel records on senate faculty who were on campus in July 1997, including data on starting step, salary, and progress through the ranks. Becaus...

Somatically acquired genomic alterations that drive oncogenic cellular processes are of great scientific and clinical interest. Since the initiation of large-scale cancer genomic projects (e.g., the Cancer Genome Project, The Cancer Genome Atlas, and the International Cancer Genome Consortium cancer genome projects), a number of web-based portals have been created to facilitate access to multid...

1 Insituto Nacional de Câncer, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. 2 Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, Brasil. 3 Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A. 4 Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública Sergio Arouca, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. 5 Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. 6 Ontario Institute for Can...