Scientific research

Cautiously optimistic. This is the outcome of one of the most complete and realistic studies conducted to the present date on the mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, just published in the [...]

Vitamins are fundamental molecules not only for human life, but also for the lives of many other living organisms, including bacteria.

Organoids are tiny parts of organs created in the laboratory using “real” cells of the body (which are grown on specific sterile well plates). Hence, they can be used as biological models, [...]

Today, we are living in unprecedented times, in which the clear division of the online and offline worlds no longer exists: this new dimension is what Floridi calls the infosphere.

While the Covid-19 pandemic is showing no signs of slowing-down one key aspect is starting to become clearer: why do some people recover and others die from the infection?

What inspires a teenager to take on the great scientific and engineering challenge of inventing the first ‘intelligent’ dressing? Anushka Naiknaware, who at the age of thirteen has become the [...]

In a recent interview Holden Thorp, a chemist and the editor-in-chief of “Science”, one of the most respected science journals in the world, spoke about the increasingly important role that [...]

Researchers from the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in La Jolla are offering hope in the treatment of dry age-related macular degeneration

We know that the microbiome plays an important role in several metabolic diseases and that many bowel-related diseases are increasing dramatically in developed countries around the world.

The symptoms of Covid-19 sufferers cover a very wide range between two extremes, from a total absence of any signs of the disease to death, passing through various forms of mild respiratory [...]