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Published on: January 4, 2014
Disparity between scientific accomplishment and biotechnology availability in Brazil
Lucia Maria Almeida Braz1, Roozbeh Tahmasebi1, Antonio Charlys da Costa1
1Instituto de Medicina Tropical da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.
Abstract:
Despite being among the world's leaders in scientific output, Brazil ranks 66th among countries in the production of reagents and supplies needed for state-of-the-art scientific analyses. The production of needed reagents and equipment for experimental analyses and patient diagnostics is sorely lacking within Brazil and explicit in this pandemic period caused by SARS-CoV-2. A significant fraction of resources from Brazilian funding agencies is now being transferred to companies in other countries for the purchase of essential scientific-related products. Is this sustainable? Therefore it is necessary to draw the attention of all the world and Brazilian society about this situation.
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