genética

Science and Technology

Organ transplantation may enter a new era with genetically modified pigs and the promise of ending the waiting list for human donors

Fabio Lucas Carvalho 25/04/2026 at 00:12

Science and Technology

Science discovers that the air is not empty as it seems, but rather a gigantic natural archive that stores DNA of animals, plants, and humans without anyone noticing.

Felipe Alves da Silva 16/04/2026 at 09:14

Science and Technology

Japanese scientists have discovered that human DNA carries a second secret code that determines which genes will be silenced, and a protein called DHX29 is responsible for filtering the weaker genetic messages.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 15/04/2026 at 21:22

Science and Technology

Researchers believed for decades that genetics influenced only a small part of people’s lifespan and that lifestyle was what mattered most, but a new study from the Weizmann Institute in Israel turned this idea upside down and showed that DNA plays a much larger role than anyone imagined in determining who lives longer and who dies sooner.

Bruno Teles 14/04/2026 at 16:02

Cientistas analisando árvore genealógica em laboratório enquanto estudam padrão incomum de nascimentos masculinos ligado a possível gene raro associado ao cromossomo Y.

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Family Intrigues Scientists After Registering Overwhelming Majority of Men for More Than 200 Years and Raising Hypothesis of Rare Gene Linked to Y Chromosome

Caio Aviz 09/03/2026 at 17:12

Três lagartos Uta stansburiana com gargantas laranja, azul e amarela sobre rochas no deserto, ilustrando estratégias evolutivas semelhantes ao jogo pedra, papel e tesoura.

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Lizards Live in an Evolving Game of Rock, Paper, Scissors, Where Colors, Behavior, and Reproduction Alternate in Cycles That Maintain the Species’ Genetic Balance Over Time

Caio Aviz 08/01/2026 at 15:14

idoso brasileiro supercentenário exemplo de longevidade extrema

Interesting facts

What Brazilians Living Beyond 110 Years Reveal About Longevity, Genetics, and Possible Ways to Age Better According to Science

Jefferson Augusto 06/01/2026 at 14:48

Ilustração sobre genética, hormônios e ambiente na perda de peso

Interesting facts

The Myth Of Willpower In Weight Loss: Why Genetics, Hormones, And Environment Make Some People Struggle Much More To Lose Weight Despite Daily Effort

Jefferson Augusto 06/01/2026 at 13:18

Pesquisa publicada na Nature identifica cinco fatores genéticos que conectam depressão, ansiedade, esquizofrenia, TDAH e outros transtornos mentais.

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Scientists Discover That Autism, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and Other Psychiatric Disorders Share Up to 70% of Genetic Overlap

Ruth Rodrigues 20/12/2025 at 12:48

Ilustração científica ultra realista mostra fragmentação do DNA em células tumorais, com cromossomos quebrados e atividade enzimática associada à cromotripsia no câncer.

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Invisible Enzyme Identified After Decades as Engine of Genetic Chaos That Accelerates Cancer and Hinders Treatments

Caio Aviz 16/12/2025 at 13:02

Cientista segurando tubos de ensaio com amostras de sangue durante análise laboratorial que representa a descoberta de um novo sistema sanguíneo raro.

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Routine Tests Reveal Blood Type Never Seen Before, Present in Only One Person on the Planet

Caio Aviz 15/12/2025 at 14:40

Com genética forte na pecuária leiteira, vacas de alta produção em confinamento simples e gado meio sangue, jovem de Paiva transforma vacas em muito leite.

Agribusiness

With Strong Genetics and Producing Up to 900 Liters Per Day, Young Man from Paiva Transforms 10 Cows into 38, Betting on Simple Confinement, High Average, and Heavy Routine to Grow in Dairy Farming

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 26/11/2025 at 20:30

Organ transplantation may enter a new era with genetically modified pigs and the promise of ending the waiting list for human donors

Science discovers that the air is not empty as it seems, but rather a gigantic natural archive that stores DNA of animals, plants, and humans without anyone noticing.

Japanese scientists have discovered that human DNA carries a second secret code that determines which genes will be silenced, and a protein called DHX29 is responsible for filtering the weaker genetic messages.

Family Intrigues Scientists After Registering Overwhelming Majority of Men for More Than 200 Years and Raising Hypothesis of Rare Gene Linked to Y Chromosome

Lizards Live in an Evolving Game of Rock, Paper, Scissors, Where Colors, Behavior, and Reproduction Alternate in Cycles That Maintain the Species’ Genetic Balance Over Time

What Brazilians Living Beyond 110 Years Reveal About Longevity, Genetics, and Possible Ways to Age Better According to Science

The Myth Of Willpower In Weight Loss: Why Genetics, Hormones, And Environment Make Some People Struggle Much More To Lose Weight Despite Daily Effort

Scientists Discover That Autism, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and Other Psychiatric Disorders Share Up to 70% of Genetic Overlap

Invisible Enzyme Identified After Decades as Engine of Genetic Chaos That Accelerates Cancer and Hinders Treatments

Routine Tests Reveal Blood Type Never Seen Before, Present in Only One Person on the Planet

With Strong Genetics and Producing Up to 900 Liters Per Day, Young Man from Paiva Transforms 10 Cows into 38, Betting on Simple Confinement, High Average, and Heavy Routine to Grow in Dairy Farming

A giant printer called the “Ferrari” of concrete has landed in Latin America and can already build a 120-square-meter house in just 48 hours, making the traditional construction site look like something from the last century.

Brazil will harvest a record crop of up to 357 million tons of grains, but it does not have the capacity to store a large part of it. The storage deficit has reached the highest level in history and is equivalent to almost the entire production of Argentina.

Four times faster than the Concorde, capable of taking passengers from New York to London in less than an hour at Mach 5.5, and with an engine that switches from turbojet to ramjet mid-flight at Mach 3.5, the Hermeus Quarterhorse went from paper to its first flight in just 19 months.

SpaceX will dock a $843 million vehicle to the International Space Station to push a nearly 420-ton laboratory against the atmosphere and make the debris fall in a controlled manner into the ocean.

China opens the world’s first school where more than 100 humanoid robots from different brands will study together, each movement will be repeated up to 600 times a day and the data will feed a collective brain that will teach all the robots of the future.