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The Business Opportunities for Brazilian Biodiversity

From nature comes everything. The solutions to problems that life has encountered over the last four billion years are encoded in the DNA of species. However, transforming this into a viable product requires (a lot of) scientists, (quite some) time and (a lot of) money. Discount rates are high and the net present value of […]

The Moult – A poetical biological tale about moving on

Chordates, animals with spinal-cord, exhibit continuous growth. It may be faster or slower, but because it is continuous, is hard to see. Arthropods, in turn, do not have bones. Its skeleton is external and called exoskeleton. Imagine a medieval knight: his armor is a perfect example of exoskeleton. Back to the arthropods. Among them, there […]