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The Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) has renewed its partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Higher risk of obesity for children who spend more time in front of the television than at the computer. This is the conclusion of a study by the University of Coimbra, funded by the FCT.

A research team at the Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM) has discovered a way to annihilate the malaria parasite, responsible for infecting approximately 220 million people a year.

Institutions and research centers in Aveiro, Coimbra, Porto and Lisbon are home to five of the scientists awarded Starting Grants by the European Research Council (ERC) in 2013.hhh

The Portuguese Node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) has launched its portal, which publicizes activities and promotes the participation of national institutions and organizations in this network.

A research team from the University of Aveiro has recreated in the laboratory what the Candida albicans fungus can do in nature: alter its genetic code.

In a study funded by the FCT, researchers from the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC) have identified a gene that is central to the transition between trunk and tail in vertebrates.

Ambimed, a Portuguese company dedicated to integrated hospital waste management, is one of the partners in the project that won this year's EUREKA Innovation Award.

The purpose of the DNS.pt Association is to manage, operate and maintain the registration of the top-level domain corresponding to Portugal (.pt).

INESC TEC's researcher and director, Vladimiro Miranda, was awarded the prize by the renowned Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

An article published in the journal Nature presents the first three-dimensional structure of the KMO protein, which plays a critical role in the development of diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's.

A non-invasive system for recharging electronic implant batteries, using energy that passes through the body transcutaneously, has been developed by a student from the MIT Portugal Program.