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
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.
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.
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 ...
A new vaccine against Ebola developed by the U.S. Army | IBSA Foundation
While more than 100 types of vaccines against Covid-19 are being studied around the world, the search for drugs that activate our immune defences against ...