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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 Castelli25 Apr 20182 min read

Transplanting a liver? Better to keep it warm

An about-face: livers to be transplanted should not be kept cold, as has been done for many years, but warm, at a temperature of 37 degrees. The damage which ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli23 Apr 20181 min read

Can artificial intelligence become depressed? | IBSA Foundation

Can even artificial intelligence suffer from depression, or experience hallucinations, like the human brain? The question is much less odd than it might seem, ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli20 Apr 20181 min read

Robotic belts for treating scoliosis

Congenital deformities of the spine, like idiopathic scoliosis and pathologic kyphosis, will be able to be corrected in a personalized and more efficient way ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli17 Apr 20181 min read

Light is used to kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria

They are celled NanoZymes, artificial enzymes which could provide important help in the battle against antibiotic resistant infections. Researchers from ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli10 Apr 20181 min read

If a mole could help us find tumours?

A research study carried out by the Federal Polytechnic of Zurich (ETH) in Basel, could provide important news in the field of tumor prevention thanks to the ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli05 Apr 20181 min read

Computers? As good as humans in creating new molecules | IBSA Foundation

We hear more and more talk about artificial intelligence (AI), and sometimes with concern, for the fear that this type of technology could undermine the human ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli03 Apr 20181 min read

New liquid crystal screens as thin as paper | IBSA Foundation

Optoelectronic engineers from the universities of Hong Kong and Shanghai have succeeded in creating a special liquid crystal display (LCD) which is paper-thin, ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli21 Mar 20181 min read

The immune system helps tattoos to resister

A mechanism that could of explain how pigments stay in the skin such a long time.
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Luca Nicola21 Jan 2018< 1 min read

Perhaps not everyone knows that…

There is an historic link between comics and immunology: in a story at the beginning of the 1960s, the legendary Flash Gordon becomes seriously ill.
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Luca Nicola15 Jan 2018< 1 min read

Fake news is as old as time

Fake news is as old as time and dates back to well before the Internet.
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Luca Nicola14 Jan 2018< 1 min read

Telling the story of science through comics | IBSA Foundation

How can you tell the story of science through comics?
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