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
An irresistible antibiotic from Princeton researchers | IBSA Foundation
After many years of studies and unsuccessful attempts, the fight against the bacteria resistant to normal drugs may be at a turning point.
#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.
More risk of the greenhouse effect because of a virus
On the surface of our oceans a phage (i.e. a virus that infects bacteria) risks modifying the fine balance that regulates oxygen and carbon dioxide production.
Towards Cultural Welfare
Article by Silvia Misiti and Catterina Seia on the growing popularity of cultural welfare neologism in future policies, not only cultural.
#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.
Chronic stress - the identification of anxiety’s circuit-breaker” | IBSA Foundation
It has been known for some time that chronic stress may also have “physical” consequences on the body, triggering, for example, inflammation of the nervous ...
#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.