Why are sugary foods so hard to resist? | IBSA Foundation
Sugar is a word that we all know, and that we usually associate with a sweetening ingredient. In fact, it is a general term...
“False” vitamins to fight the most frightening bacteria | IBSA Foundation
Vitamins are fundamental molecules not only for human life, but also for the lives of many other living organisms, including bacteria.
Our neurons move like fish | IBSA Foundation
What do a school of fish swimming in perfect harmony and our brain cells have in common?
Organoids for the most effective chemotherapy to treat cancer | IBSA Foundation
Organoids are tiny parts of organs created in the laboratory using “real” cells of the body (which are grown on specific sterile well plates). Hence, they can ...
The infosphere is transforming our lives | IBSA Foundation
Today, we are living in unprecedented times, in which the clear division of the online and offline worlds no longer exists: this new dimension is what Floridi ...
New markers tell us who can defend themselves well from Covid-19 | IBSA Foundation
While the Covid-19 pandemic is showing no signs of slowing-down one key aspect is starting to become clearer: why do some people recover and others die from ...
A smart bandage for treating chronic wounds | IBSA Foundation
What inspires a teenager to take on the great scientific and engineering challenge of inventing the first ‘intelligent’ dressing? Anushka Naiknaware, who at ...
Which scientific fields will have the greatest impact on our lives?
In a recent interview Holden Thorp, a chemist and the editor-in-chief of “Science”, one of the most respected science journals in the world, spoke about...
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 ...
Reawakening of sea bacteria after 100 million years
They are a hundred thousand years old, although they don’t show it: for all these years they were “stuck” in the depths of the ocean. But...
“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.
Key molecule discovered to treat blindness in the elderly | IBSA Foundation
The Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in La Jolla are offering hope in the treatment of dry age-related macular degeneration
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
Covid-19: defence depends (not only) on antibodies | IBSA Foundation
The symptoms of Covid-19 sufferers cover a very wide range between two extremes, from a total absence of any signs of the disease to death
Neurodegenerative Diseases: Culture as Cure
Article, by Catterina Seia with Annalisa Cicerchia, on art projects oriented to well-being, inside and outside the places of culture and care
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?
Mapping of blood vessels
Measure blood flow is essential in many diseases for understanding how much blood, oxygen and nutrients reach our tissues and organs