FAPESP announces the SPRINT -- Sao Paulo Researchers in International Collaboration, a strategy designed to encourage and promote the advancement of scientific research through the engagement of researchers affiliated with research institutions in the Brazilian State of Sao Paulo with researcher partners abroad.

An unprecedented research conducted by a group of neuroscientists has demonstrated that it is possible to train brain patterns associated with empathic feelings. Volunteers who received neurofeedback about their own brain activity patterns whilst being scanned inside a functional magnetic resonance machine were able to increase empathic brain states. These findings could open new possibilities for treatment of clinical situations, such as antisocial personality disorder and postpartum depression.

A new study published ahead of print in The FASEB Journal shows that heparin interactions with the terminal domains of a prion protein impair its conversion into scrapie prion, preventing its aggregation in the brain.

A new study demonstrates that lotto numbers follow a predicted pattern and provides a step-by-step guide on how to improve your chances of winning the lottery jackpot.

A Smithsonian researcher and colleagues helped rural farmers in Mexico to quantify the genetically modified organism soybean pollen in honey samples rejected for sale in Germany. Their results will appear Feb. 7 in the online journal, Scientific Reports.