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The Challenges of Sciences

A Tribute to Carlos Chagas
Proceedings of Working Group | 23-24 February 2001
Scripta Varia 103 | Vatican City, 2002
pp. 168, VI tables | ISBN 88-7761-081-6

Contents

The Main Lines of Multidisciplinary Research Implanted at the Institute of Biophysics by Carlos Chagas Filho

D.F. de Almeida

The Contribution of Cell Biology for a Better Understanding of Chagas’ Disease

W. de Souza

Sciences and Solidarity

Paul Germain

L’homme de science et la société actuelle

A. Blanc-Lapierre

Biodiversity and the Human Prospect

Peter H. Raven

Genetically Modified Organisms

Maxine F. Singer

Molecular Evolution: Comparison of Natural and Engineered Genetic Variations

Werner Arber

Constraints on the Origin and Evolution of Life

Christian de Duve

Challenges and Achievements in Infectious and Autoimmune Diseases

Michael Sela

Carlos Chagas Filho: Scientist and Humanist

Rita Levi-Montalcini

How to Find Better Drugs for the Treatment of AIDS

Paul A.J. Janssen

The Challenges of Science

Max F. Perutz

Functional Aspects of Left-handed Nucleic Acids

Alexander Rich

Society, Sciences, and the Future of our Species

Crodowaldo Pavan