“CAR” cells also for treating childhood cancers
Using a cutting-edge immunotherapy, called CAR, researchers from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston have managed to block neuroblastoma
Barbara, the founder of cellular genetics
Barbara was awarded the Prize in 1983 for her discovery of transposons, the genetic elements capable of changing position within the genome. Her brilliant and revolutionary intuition dates back [...]
Covid-19 and air pollution, dangerously intertwined
Air pollution appears to have a very close connection with the seriousness of Covid-19. This is confirmed by a study carried out by Emory University in Atlanta, published in the scientific [...]
Rosalyn, the mother of endocrinology
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was the sixth woman in the world to win the Nobel Prize in Science and the second woman to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine
An algorithm to correct drugs that are too “masculine”
An algorithm that uses artificial intelligence systems to predict the ways that many drugs currently on the market, tested almost exclusively on men (for various reasons), can create unexpected [...]
Gerty, the first female winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine
Gerty Radnitz Cori was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1947. The prize, shared with her husband Carl Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay, was awarded for the [...]
The virus passes from humans to dogs, but not vice-versa
The first known case dates back to the beginning of March: a Pomeranian puppy was infected by its owner, who had contracted the coronavirus in Hong Kong.
Now there is proof: Mozart’s music can “heal”
They have called it the Mozart effect, because in tests it is this music by the Salzburg musician that is used most.
