Ohe new economic indicators, including the growth in industrial production and the slight recovery in formal employment, encouraged the market and gave new impetus to the Lula government, which last year faced a 0,2% drop in GDP. In the opinion of most analysts, however, it is not clear whether the numbers actually indicate the resumption of growth, or whether they are the result of a consumption “bubble”. For professors Daniela Prates, Edgard Antonio Pereira and Francisco Lopreato, from Unicamp's Institute of Economics (IE), who analyze the economic situation for JU, it is still premature to say that a framework of sustainable growth is being consolidated for the coming years.

Coffee genome


Unicamp organizes database

Researcher Gonçalo Amarante Pereira, from Unicamp's Genomics and Expression Laboratory, one of those responsible for formatting and organizing the coffee genome database, shows the importance of the recently completed sequencing for the future of coffee farming.

The dangers of cancer. On the table

Unpublished study by doctoral student Mônica Cristiane Rojo de Camargo, from FEA,
reveals that Brazilians daily ingest potentially carcinogenic compounds in quantities at least three times greater than the limit. The compounds, formed during the incomplete combustion of organic material, are present in oils, meats and sugars.

Father is missed

Research by psychiatrist Maurício Miguel Gadbem links the fact that compulsive drug users are unable to think symbolically to the absence of a father figure in their upbringing. This gap, according to the study, would be the cause of the abusive consumption of legal and illicit psychoactive substances. Gadbem has worked with drug addicts for 10 years.

The bê-a-bá of children's cinema

The writer and journalist João Batista de Melo completed the first complete survey of the history of national children's cinema in his master's thesis “The angelic screen: childhood and children's cinema”, defended at the Institute of Arts.