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A collection of regularly updated articles designed to make the world of science and health more accessible and engaging.
Paolo Rossi Castelli11 Feb 20212 min read

Covid – schizophrenia is a high-risk factor

According to a study, people with this disease are three times more likely to die from Covid than the average person
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Paolo Rossi Castelli04 Feb 20213 min read

Breast cancer – androgens to boost therapies

Male hormones, used many years ago and then abandoned (due to their excessive side effects), are now being used once again
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Paolo Rossi Castelli28 Jan 20212 min read

“Heating” chemoteraphy to make it more effective

The chemotherapy of the future could be administered through nanometre particles and heated by magnetic fields.
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Paolo Rossi Castelli21 Jan 20212 min read

Surprise: the Covid pandemic has got rid of the flu

Of the many things brought by Covid-19, there is one that has left researchers baffled: the disappearance of the classic flu, or almost.
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Luca Nicola30 Dec 20205 min read

Tu Youyou, the Nobel Prize for her work on malaria

Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize in Medicine, together with William C. Campbell and Satoshi Omura, for her important work on the cure for malaria.
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Paolo Rossi Castelli28 Dec 20202 min read

Magnetic bacteria for super-precise anti-cancer treatments

A team from ETH Zurich is studying a new way, with an added element of science fiction, to make anti-cancer drugs reach the right point inside the body of ...
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Luca Nicola23 Dec 20205 min read

May, the neuroscientist who reconstructed the map of our brain

May Britt-Moser won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2014 together with her husband Edvard I. Moser and John O'Keefe, thanks to her studies on neuroscience, ...
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Catterina Seia21 Dec 20204 min read

Play contributes to individual and collective wellbeing

Gamification is one of the trends of investment in health, applied to the awareness, prevention, monitoring and even treatment of diseases.
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Paolo Rossi Castelli18 Dec 20202 min read

Intestinal bacteria shapes the immune system | IBSA Foundation

There is a very close link between our immune system and intestinal microbiota (i.e. all the "good" bacteria that live in our intestines)
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Luca Nicola16 Dec 20205 min read

Carol, the youngest woman to win the Noble Prize in Medicine

Carol W. Greider won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine, along with Elizabeth Blackburn and Jack Szostak, for her research on cellular ageing
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Paolo Rossi Castelli11 Dec 20202 min read

Hunting for patients' secrets who resist cancer

We have known for a long time that a small number of cancer patients react in an extraordinarily effective way to treatment. These people, called exceptional ...
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Luca Nicola09 Dec 20205 min read

Elizabeth, the explorer of cellular ageing

Elizabeth Blackburn won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine, along with Carol Greider and Jack Szostak, for her research on cellular ageing and in particular on ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli04 Dec 20203 min read

Chapare, a new worrying and dangerous virus in Bolivia

It is called Chapare, and until some time ago it was an unknown virus, but now it is a cause for concern. In particular, experts are trying to figure out where ...
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Luca Nicola02 Dec 20204 min read

Françoise, the virologist who discovered the HIV virus

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine, together with Luc Montagnier, for the discovery of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the cause ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli27 Nov 20202 min read

New health tests resulting from the movement of “cilia”

Not many people know this, but our health and our wellbeing also depend on very thin filaments (much thinner than hair) that literally float along our ...
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Luca Nicola25 Nov 20204 min read

Linda, the scientist who unveiled the secrets of smell

Linda B. Buck won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2004, together with Richard Axel, for her work on olfactory receptors and for isolating the genes that, when ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli20 Nov 20202 min read

Do some forms of psychosis have an autoimmune origin? | IBSA Foundation

Do schizophrenia and other forms of psychosis have an autoimmune component? In other words, are they caused by errors in the immune system that attack nerve ...
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Luca Nicola18 Nov 20204 min read

Christiane, the genius of biochemistry

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1995, together with Eric Wieschaus and Edward Lewis, for her discoveries on the genetic ...
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