Paolo Rossi Castelli
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), ...
Does dopamine (produced by the brain) cure diabetes?
The patient zero was a 53-year old Dutch man, victim of a serious obsessive-compulsive disorder, who had accepted to be treated with an extreme, invasive ...
A new gel repairs stroke damage (in animals)
For the first time a gel, injected directly into the brain, has shown that it is capable of regenerating cells in the nervous system damaged as the result of a ...
"Left" and "right" molecules: this is how they can be divided
Chemical molecules have an orientation in space: they can be directed to the left or the right, taking on two opposite forms from one another.
Sound waves to measure toxic substances in water
Researchers from the Ciencias Fisicas Institute of the Universidad Autonoma de Maexico (UNAM), in Cuernavaca, have discovered that the use of sound waves to ...
Avalanches, electronic mini-sensor for finding people
A very small electronic sensor developed by engineers in the ETH in Zurich can effectively help rescuers searching for people trapped under avalanches or under ...