Paolo Rossi Castelli
Even the intestine produces electrical energy
A group of researchers has discovered that the bacteria that populate our intestine are able to generate electricity
8.000 new antibiotic combinations to fight bacteria
While waiting for new antibiotics, a study is coming from California for an effective solution to infections that are difficult to fight today.
New "strategy" for repairing spinal cord injuries | IBSA Foundation
A study set up from the collaboration between the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne and the University of California, Los Angeles campus, has led to a ...
"Revolution" for the universal flu vaccine
We are getting closer to the possibility of creating a universal vaccine against all (or almost all) the possible forms of influenza, without the need to ...
Ultra-thin nervous “tissue” for treating eye problems
There is new hope in the treatment of serious eye diseases thanks to a new type of artificial retina developed by researchers in the Aerospace Engineering and ...
Does antitubercular vaccine work against diabetes?
An old tuberculosis vaccine, developed in the 20s of the last century by the bacteriologist Albert Calmette and the vet Camille Guérin (both French researchers ...
Within marine sponges new antibacterial substances
The solution to one of the big issues of world health, i.e. the growing resistance to antibiotics by many types of bacteria, may also come from the sea and, ...
New gene therapy to restore hand function
A new hope for recovery of hands functionality after a spinal cord injury comes from researchers at King's College London
Discovered 27 unknown infecting bees viruses
An international team of researchers has identified 27 types of viruses, hitherto unknown, that infect bees (the results of the study were published in the ...
Recreate the intestine? You can, thanks (also) to a spring
Recreate in the lab animal, or even human organs (or parts of them), similar to those present inside the body, to better study diseases and possible ...
For the first time, a lab-created human prion
Do you remember the mad cow syndrome and especially its human version, Creutzfeldt Jakob's disease? After the emergencies of about twenty years ago, we do not ...
Sea waves? They "throw" viruses and bacteria
For several decades, between 1800 and 1900, one of the popular therapies more or less for any illness envisaged exposure to sea air, without any supporting ...
How to extract water from desert air
Is it possible to collect water directly from air in the planet most arid places, to at least partially compensate for water scarcity
Out of Cambridge, the super-map of proteins in human blood
Thanks to innovative technology, researchers from the University of Cambridge (Great Britain), together with colleagues from other international institutions, ...
Even the “devices” implanted in our bodies are wireless
The number of medical devices that can be implanted into the human body is constantly increasing
Hospital infections, the "tricks" of the superbugs
Hospital infections caused by bacteria resistant to antibiotics are a reason for great worry for international health authorities, and cause several thousand ...
Diamonds can be bent too
Very small synthetic diamonds are also bendable and this flexibility opens the doors to countless new applications in the field of optics, physics and ...
Origami-style models for the cultivation of bone cells | IBSA Foundation
Inspired by the ancient Japanese art of origami of folding paper into miniature shapes and figures, bioengineers in Lowell, University del Massachusetts (USA), ...