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A collection of regularly updated articles designed to make the world of science and health more accessible and engaging.
Luca Nicola12 Aug 20204 min read

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 ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli07 Aug 20202 min read

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...
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Luca Nicola05 Aug 20203 min read

“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.
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Paolo Rossi Castelli31 Jul 20202 min read

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
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Luca Nicola29 Jul 20202 min read

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
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Paolo Rossi Castelli24 Jul 20202 min read

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
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Catterina Seia23 Jul 20204 min read

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
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Luca Nicola22 Jul 20202 min read

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 ...
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Luca Nicola15 Jul 20202 min read

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?
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Paolo Rossi Castelli10 Jul 20202 min read

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
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Paolo Rossi Castelli03 Jul 20202 min read

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.
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Luca Nicola01 Jul 20201 min read

#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.
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Paolo Rossi Castelli26 Jun 20202 min read

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.
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Catterina Seia24 Jun 20206 min read

Towards Cultural Welfare

Article by Silvia Misiti and Catterina Seia on the growing popularity of cultural welfare neologism in future policies, not only cultural.
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Luca Nicola24 Jun 20201 min read

#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.
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Luca Nicola17 Jun 20202 min read

#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.
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Paolo Rossi Castelli12 Jun 20202 min read

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 ...
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Luca Nicola10 Jun 20201 min read

#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.
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