Luca Nicola
Preventing the next pandemic? | IBSA Foundation
To successfully deal with the crisis caused by this pandemic, what lessons can we learn from the past? And what do we have to do to try and avoid a repetition ...
“Soft” muscles for robots of the future | IBSA Foundation
Christoph Keplinger is challenging the current limitations of robots and rethinking them in terms of how they look, how they work and what they can do.
Microbiome study opens up new therapeutic prospects | IBSA Foundation
We know that the microbiome plays an important role in several metabolic diseases and that many bowel-related diseases are increasing
Does the language we speak influence our way of thinking?
The research conducted by the psychologist Lera Boroditsky is distinguished by its original and interdisciplinary approach, which integrates methods and ...
What makes our body age? | IBSA Foundation
Why don't we all age in the same way? What is the secret of those people who reach "the third age" with a clear mind and are physically active?
#contagiousstories: a digital community to fight fake news on coronavirus
False information on the coronavirus and the spreading of fake news can have very serious consequences on people’s lives.
#contagiousstories: what’s the best protection against coronavirus? Awareness and solidarity
At just 25 years of age, Inés has very clear ideas and is actively committed to making her ideals become reality.
#contagiousstories: Maxime scores his greatest goal
The coronavirus emergency, as we know, has radically changed all of our lives. Almost always by necessity, but sometimes by choice.
#contagiousstories: fighting Covid-19 with music and graffiti, it happens in Senegal
The commitment of these Senegalese artists to the fight against Covid-19 has found a very fitting means of expression in music. But it isn’t the only one.
#contagiousstories: Haïti’s Scouts launch a hand-washing campaign
In Haiti, the Scouts are used to facing difficulties and natural disasters. And they demonstrated this strength once again, by taking on an insidious and ...
#contagiousstories: Christian makes hand sanitizer in Cameroon
26-year old Christian Achaleke, who works in an organization for economic development, asked one of his colleagues in logistics to buy hand sanitizer. However, ...
#contagiousstories: Ben, Jinny and Wilson secure masks for New York frontline healthcare workers
It all started on Tuesday, March 17, when Ben Wei, a student from New York, received this message from his friend, a doctor working at a Bronx hospital
#contagiousstories: Marietta offers to volunteer
Marietta Hochstrasser, 51 years old, changed her life and founded 4COMPETENCE, a company that distributes cardiac surgery products.
#contagiousstories: Captain Tom fights for the National Health Service
For his hundredth birthday (April 30, 2020), former captain of the British army, Tom Moore, desired a very special gift.
#contagiousstories: Giulia returns to nursing
In the pool she is the last bastion of Setterosa against the attacks of the opposing team. Now, Giulia Viacava is involved in an even tougher match
Children also learn at home, but in a different way | IBSA Foundation
The child psychiatrist Paul Ramchandani has been tasked with conducting research at the University of Cambridge into the role of play in child development.
Homo sapiens have to learn from plants
In his book “The nation of plants”, the neurobiologist Stefano Mancuso, head of the international Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology at the University of ...
Coronavirus: the evolutionary perspective | IBSA Foundation
You must know your enemy in order to defeat them: this ancient and very wise saying could help us to look at the impact that the SARS-CoV2 is having on our ...