One on Everest, one at home: the DNA of two twins changes
What happens to the body when it is subjected to extreme conditions like those of the high mountains? How does the expression of the genetic code change, if it ...
Hyper-fast little animals? A model for robots
Robots, including even the most sophisticated ones, have never managed to be ultra-rapid, and have never even come close to reaching the “snap action” of the ...
The project to create anti-virus supercells gets underway
Why create these super-cells? The cells that are normally used for medical research are often contaminated by various types of agents, which also generates ...
Even a crocodile's brain reacts to music
Crocodiles (from the Nile, in this case) react to music like mammals and birds in a very similar way by stimulating the same areas of the brain.
Mini 3D printer creates electronic circuits directly on the skin
The evolution of the 3D printer is an object that, according to its inventor, Michael McAlpine of the University ofl Minnesota (USA), can fit in your pocket ...
DNA? In some points it has a newly discovered knot shape
As explained in biology books, the genetic code known as DNA present in every cell forms an elegant double spiral, or double helix shape. But beyond this ...
Artificial leaf produces medicines with sunlight | IBSA Foundation
A miniature medicine factory, but potentially also of many other chemical compounds, in the form of a leaf, created at minimal cost and powered by sunlight, ...
Chip implants for monitoring blood alcohol levels
People who are trying to combat alcohol addiction will be able to find help with a chip created by bioengineers at the University of California in the United ...
Science and journalism: Silvia’s formula
In this video Silvia Bencivelli explains the difficulty of those, like herself, who explain science.
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
The immune system helps tattoos to resister
A mechanism that could of explain how pigments stay in the skin such a long time.
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.