2009年8月28日星期五

Yahoo! News: Brazil

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Brazil


Tick saliva could hold cancer cure: Brazilian scientists (AFP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 02:06 PM PDT

A laboratory worker shows a tick, at the molecular centre of Butantan Institute, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on August 25. One of nature's repulsive little blood-sucking parasites, the tick, could yield a future cure for cancers of the skin, liver and pancreas, Brazilian researchers have discovered.(AFP/File/Mauricio Lima)AFP - It may be one of nature's repulsive little blood-sucking parasites, but the humble tick could yield a future cure for cancers of the skin, liver and pancreas, Brazilian researchers have discovered.


In Brazil's Wild West, police press politician with investigation (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 02:00 AM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The Amazon has always been Brazil's version of the Wild West. Here's one example why.
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