#contagiousstories: Captain Tom fights for the National Health Service
For his hundredth birthday (April 30, 2020), former captain of the British army, Tom Moore, desired a very special gift.
Covid-19, a task force at Harvard to accelerate vaccines
The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the efforts of the international scientific community to gain a much deeper understanding of how the immune system works
#contagiousstories: Giulia returns to nursing
In the pool she is the last bastion of Setterosa against the attacks of the opposing team. Now, Giulia Viacava is involved in an even tougher match
Children also learn at home, but in a different way | IBSA Foundation
The child psychiatrist Paul Ramchandani has been tasked with conducting research at the University of Cambridge into the role of play in child development.
How humans facilitate virus spillover | IBSA Foundation
Is there a link between environmental change and virus spillover (i.e. the passage of viruses from animals to humans)?
Reducing salt strengthens the immune system
There is something we can all do to strengthen our immune defences: drastically reducing our salt intake, which in the West, on average, is double the amount ...
How robots are helping to treat coronavirus patients
The editorial of the journal Science Robotics is also dedicated to the potential of robots in the wards, especially during an emergency situation like the one ...
Homo sapiens have to learn from plants
In his book “The nation of plants”, the neurobiologist Stefano Mancuso, head of the international Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology at the University of ...
Cancer diagnosis thanks to the DNA “lost” in our microbiome? | IBSA Foundation
We have known for some time that the bacteria found in our intestines and in other areas of our bodies can, in certain cases, play a role in the onset or ...
Stem cells cultivated in space for more “precise” treatments | IBSA Foundation
The basic idea of the researchers from UZH Space Hub is that stem cells, finding themselves in low gravity conditions, are able to develop spontaneously.
Coronavirus: the evolutionary perspective | IBSA Foundation
You must know your enemy in order to defeat them: this ancient and very wise saying could help us to look at the impact that the SARS-CoV2 is having on our ...
More precise mammograms with artificial intelligence | IBSA Foundation
Artificial Intelligence (or AI) is playing an ever increasing role in medicine, especially in the oncology sector.
How the first black holes were formed | IBSA Foundation
The young astronomer Edwige Pezzulli shows a photograph of what the universe looked like in the very beginning, almost 14 billion years ago.
New “strategy” for treating Duchenne muscular dystrophy | IBSA Foundation
Physiologists from the Perelman School of Medicine are offering new hope for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
More effective treatments thanks to “transparent”organs
Making human organs "transparent" in order to understand the finest details of their structure and to find more effective treatments.
Fragments of Ebola for combatting brain tumors | IBSA Foundation
It may seem strange but, Ebola, could prove useful in the treatment of one of the most malignant kind of brain tumors: glioblastoma.
Hannah Fry - Love’s secret formula | IBSA Foundation
“I believe that mathematics is so powerful that it has the potential to offer us a new way of looking at almost anything. Even something as mysterious as love”.
A powerful weapon to fight viruses from a modified sugar
In recent weeks we have heard a lot of talk about a category of drugs that continue to fall short of our needs: antiviral drugs.