Latin America's Leader in Genetic Research

Brazil Makes It to the Scientific Big Leagues

By Mario Osava

The history of science in Brazil will be divided into before and after the Genome-FAPESP Program, predicts its scientific director José Fernando Pérez.

RIO DE JANDEIRO - Brazil made a sudden entrance in the big leagues of international science. Two achievements, one related to oranges and the other to tumors, put the country at the forefront of genetic research in Latin America, boosting it to the level of the discipline's giants - Great Britain and the United States.

Brazilian scientists at the State of Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) were the first in the world to decipher the genetic code of a p

* The author is an IPS correspondent.

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