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    Monthly Archive for: "April, 2018"
     Artificial leaf produces medicines with sunlight

    Artificial leaf produces medicines with sunlight

    30/04/2018

    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, seems too good to be true. [...]

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     Chip implants for monitoring blood alcohol levels

    Chip implants for monitoring blood alcohol levels

    27/04/2018

    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 States. The experimental prototype [...]

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    Science and journalism: Silvia’s formula

    26/04/2018

    In this video Silvia Bencivelli explains the difficulty of those, like herself, who explain science. We have to consider that science is a concept which is a bit more complex than one which can [...]

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     Transplanting a liver? Better to keep it warm

    Transplanting a liver? Better to keep it warm

    25/04/2018

    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 is done by keeping the organ at a [...]

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    The IBSA Foundation researchers: Carlotta speaking

    24/04/2018

    Her name is Carlotta Perucca Orfei and her project aims to study the potential of therapies based on the use of secretoma of mesenchymal cells for the treatment of chronic tendinopathies. Her [...]

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     Can artificial intelligence become depressed?

    Can artificial intelligence become depressed?

    23/04/2018

    Can even artificial intelligence suffer from depression, or experience hallucinations, like the human brain? The question is much less odd than it might seem, according to Zachary Mainen, a [...]

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     Robotic belts for treating scoliosis

    Robotic belts for treating scoliosis

    20/04/2018

    Congenital deformities of the spine, like idiopathic scoliosis and pathologic kyphosis, will be able to be corrected in a personalized and more efficient way thanks to a flexible robotic [...]

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    The IBSA Foundation researchers: Fabio speaking

    18/04/2018

    His name is Fabio Maino and he is specialised in endocrinology. His research si focused on a new therapy combining T3 and T4 hormones aimed at resolving the symptoms of hypothyroidism. This could [...]

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     Light is used to kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria

    Light is used to kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria

    17/04/2018

    They are celled NanoZymes, artificial enzymes which could provide important help in the battle against antibiotic resistant infections. Researchers from several Australian universities [...]

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     Adriana Albini in the Board of Directors of AACR

    Adriana Albini in the Board of Directors of AACR

    16/04/2018

    On April 13th, Adriana Albini was elected in the Board of Directors of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), whose mission is to prevent and cure cancer through research, [...]

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