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Paolo Rossi Castelli

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A professional journalist, Paolo has been involved in scientific popularisation for many years, especially in the field of medicine and biology. He is the creator of Sportello Cancro, the site created by corriere.it on oncology in collaboration with the Umberto Veronesi Foundation. He has written for the Science pages of Corriere della Sera and other national newspapers. He is founder and director of PRC-Comunicare la scienza.

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Paolo Rossi Castelli07 Nov 20182 min read

And that is how the ear can “regenerate” hearing

A study conducted from the Universities of Rochdale and Harvard is offering new hope to people that lost their hearing following the deterioration of the ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli31 Oct 20181 min read

The map of microbial “dark matter” | IBSA Foundation

In additional to cosmic dark matter, there is also another kind of dark matter: that made up of bacteria and micro-organisms outside the human body.
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Paolo Rossi Castelli31 Oct 20182 min read

New gloves for “grasping” virtual objects | IBSA Foundation

Bioengineers from Lausanne have developed an ultrathin glove that let users “touch” objects created through virtual reality.
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Paolo Rossi Castelli28 Sep 20181 min read

Do too many detergents contribute to childhood obesity?

Obsession with domestic hygiene could be detrimental to children’s health, because it alters intestinal bacteria and, hence, children’s metabolism.
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Paolo Rossi Castelli26 Sep 20182 min read

Human bone stem cells (finally) found | IBSA Foundation

A team of researchers and surgeons have identified human bone stem cells, capable of generating other bone cells and cartilage.
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Paolo Rossi Castelli21 Sep 20182 min read

Are there signs of the risk of Alzheimer’s in the back of the eye?

An examination of the back of the eye and of the retina, could help to diagnose Alzheimer’s long before the appearance of clinical symptoms.
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Paolo Rossi Castelli19 Sep 20181 min read

Even the intestine produces electrical energy

A group of researchers has discovered that the bacteria that populate our intestine are able to generate electricity
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Paolo Rossi Castelli14 Sep 20181 min read

8.000 new antibiotic combinations to fight bacteria

While waiting for new antibiotics, a study is coming from California for an effective solution to infections that are difficult to fight today.
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Paolo Rossi Castelli12 Sep 20181 min read

New "strategy" for repairing spinal cord injuries | IBSA Foundation

A study set up from the collaboration between the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne and the University of California, Los Angeles campus, has led to a ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli07 Sep 20182 min read

"Revolution" for the universal flu vaccine

We are getting closer to the possibility of creating a universal vaccine against all (or almost all) the possible forms of influenza, without the need to ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli05 Sep 20182 min read

Ultra-thin nervous “tissue” for treating eye problems

There is new hope in the treatment of serious eye diseases thanks to a new type of artificial retina developed by researchers in the Aerospace Engineering and ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli13 Jul 20182 min read

Does antitubercular vaccine work against diabetes?

An old tuberculosis vaccine, developed in the 20s of the last century by the bacteriologist Albert Calmette and the vet Camille Guérin (both French researchers ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli09 Jul 20181 min read

Within marine sponges new antibacterial substances

The solution to one of the big issues of world health, i.e. the growing resistance to antibiotics by many types of bacteria, may also come from the sea and, ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli06 Jul 20181 min read

New gene therapy to restore hand function

A new hope for recovery of hands functionality after a spinal cord injury comes from researchers at King's College London
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Paolo Rossi Castelli02 Jul 20181 min read

Discovered 27 unknown infecting bees viruses

An international team of researchers has identified 27 types of viruses, hitherto unknown, that infect bees (the results of the study were published in the ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli27 Jun 20181 min read

Recreate the intestine? You can, thanks (also) to a spring

Recreate in the lab animal, or even human organs (or parts of them), similar to those present inside the body, to better study diseases and possible ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli25 Jun 20181 min read

For the first time, a lab-created human prion

Do you remember the mad cow syndrome and especially its human version, Creutzfeldt Jakob's disease? After the emergencies of about twenty years ago, we do not ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli22 Jun 20182 min read

Sea waves? They "throw" viruses and bacteria

For several decades, between 1800 and 1900, one of the popular therapies more or less for any illness envisaged exposure to sea air, without any supporting ...
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