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 (a system with a complexity [...]
#contagiousstories: Giulia returns to nursing
In the pool she is the last bastion of Setterosa (the Italian women’s water polo team) against the attacks of the opposing team. Now, Giulia Viacava is involved in an even tougher match: [...]
Children also learn at home, but in a different way
The child psychiatrist Paul Ramchandani has been tasked with conducting research at the University of Cambridge into the role of play in child development. The study is still ongoing, but [...]
How humans facilitate virus spillover
The researchers published the results of their work in the scientific journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The expansion of human activity – they write – has pushed many wild animal [...]
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 recommended by the World Health [...]
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 we are currently experiencing. The [...]
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 Florence, encourages us to forget about the [...]
Cancer diagnosis thanks to the DNA “lost” in our microbiome?
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 development of several forms of cancer, [...]
