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 ...
The reason why the virus that causes Covid-19 is so infectious
Why is the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes the Covid-19 illness, so efficient and, therefore, so infectious?
Discovery of the “mechanisms” of enigmatic giant viruses
A study conducted by Michigan University (USA) is shedding new light on giant viruses - enigmatic viruses that are huge compared to their well-known “relatives”
Could a blood test detect Parkinson’s in advance?
Parkinson’s disease has an autoimmune origin, at least in part, and the signs of the onset of this disease could be found well in advance by looking for ...
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
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