Are there signs of the risk of Alzheimer’s in the back of the eye?
An examination of the back of the eye and of the retina, could help to diagnose Alzheimer’s long before the appearance of clinical symptoms.
Even the intestine produces electrical energy
A group of researchers has discovered that the bacteria that populate our intestine are able to generate electricity
Life: a journey through time | IBSA Foundation
Frans Lanting, one of the greatest nature photographers of the last few decades. And in fact, his idea is as grandiose as it is fearless: to reconstruct the ...
8.000 new antibiotic combinations to fight bacteria
While waiting for new antibiotics, a study is coming from California for an effective solution to infections that are difficult to fight today.
New "strategy" for repairing spinal cord injuries | IBSA Foundation
A study set up from the collaboration between the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne and the University of California, Los Angeles campus, has led to a ...
Popper’s critical rationalism
Karl Popper's Philosophy of Science begins with a critique of the idea that you can build a scientific theory by a process that goes from facts to ...
"Revolution" for the universal flu vaccine
We are getting closer to the possibility of creating a universal vaccine against all (or almost all) the possible forms of influenza, without the need to ...
Ultra-thin nervous “tissue” for treating eye problems
There is new hope in the treatment of serious eye diseases thanks to a new type of artificial retina developed by researchers in the Aerospace Engineering and ...
A look at how our brain works | IBSA Foundation
In this memorable TED Conference, the neuroscientist Beau Lotto tackles a very important subject. As science and philosophy has taught us for centuries, seeing ...
Does antitubercular vaccine work against diabetes?
An old tuberculosis vaccine, developed in the 20s of the last century by the bacteriologist Albert Calmette and the vet Camille Guérin (both French researchers ...
A new look on evolution | IBSA Foundation
To understand the human evolution on Earth should we study monkeys? No, fishes. The biologist Prosanta Chakrabarty explains it in this brilliant 5-minute lesson
Within marine sponges new antibacterial substances
The solution to one of the big issues of world health, i.e. the growing resistance to antibiotics by many types of bacteria, may also come from the sea and, ...
New gene therapy to restore hand function
A new hope for recovery of hands functionality after a spinal cord injury comes from researchers at King's College London
Consciousness, the most mysterious universal phenomenon | IBSA Foundation
Why are we conscious? So far nobody knows the answer to this query. But as the philosopher David Chalmers explains, to find it out we will need radical ideas, ...
Discovered 27 unknown infecting bees viruses
An international team of researchers has identified 27 types of viruses, hitherto unknown, that infect bees (the results of the study were published in the ...
The internet of things explained by a philosopher
We are hearing more and more about the Internet of Things. What is it all about? Luciano Floridi explains it to us in this video.
Recreate the intestine? You can, thanks (also) to a spring
Recreate in the lab animal, or even human organs (or parts of them), similar to those present inside the body, to better study diseases and possible ...
A sound will tell us whether the cell is healthy | IBSA Foundation
Dario Polli is a Professor of Physics at the Politecnico di Milano who develops new laser systems to vibrate the molecules: we could say that he is a kind of ...