
A professional journalist, Paolo has been involved in scientific popularisation for many years, especially in the field of medicine and biology. He is the creator of Sportello Cancro, the site created by corriere.it on oncology in collaboration with the Umberto Veronesi Foundation. He has written for the Science pages of Corriere della Sera and other national newspapers. He is founder and director of PRC-Comunicare la scienza.
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Paolo Rossi Castelli23 May 20181 min read
A resonance glove to "see" hand problems | IBSA Foundation
A special glove that, literally, sees the tendons, muscles and ligaments of the hand moving and interacting with bones: the prototype, developed by researchers ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli21 May 20182 min read
One on Everest, one at home: the DNA of two twins changes
What happens to the body when it is subjected to extreme conditions like those of the high mountains? How does the expression of the genetic code change, if it ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli11 May 20181 min read
Hyper-fast little animals? A model for robots
Robots, including even the most sophisticated ones, have never managed to be ultra-rapid, and have never even come close to reaching the “snap action” of the ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli09 May 20182 min read
The project to create anti-virus supercells gets underway
Why create these super-cells? The cells that are normally used for medical research are often contaminated by various types of agents, which also generates ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli07 May 20181 min read
Even a crocodile's brain reacts to music
Crocodiles (from the Nile, in this case) react to music like mammals and birds in a very similar way by stimulating the same areas of the brain.
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Paolo Rossi Castelli04 May 20181 min read
Mini 3D printer creates electronic circuits directly on the skin
The evolution of the 3D printer is an object that, according to its inventor, Michael McAlpine of the University ofl Minnesota (USA), can fit in your pocket ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli02 May 20181 min read
DNA? In some points it has a newly discovered knot shape
As explained in biology books, the genetic code known as DNA present in every cell forms an elegant double spiral, or double helix shape. But beyond this ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli30 Apr 20181 min read
Artificial leaf produces medicines with sunlight | IBSA Foundation
A miniature medicine factory, but potentially also of many other chemical compounds, in the form of a leaf, created at minimal cost and powered by sunlight, ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli27 Apr 20181 min read
Chip implants for monitoring blood alcohol levels
People who are trying to combat alcohol addiction will be able to find help with a chip created by bioengineers at the University of California in the United ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli25 Apr 20182 min read
Transplanting a liver? Better to keep it warm
An about-face: livers to be transplanted should not be kept cold, as has been done for many years, but warm, at a temperature of 37 degrees. The damage which ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli23 Apr 20181 min read
Can artificial intelligence become depressed? | IBSA Foundation
Can even artificial intelligence suffer from depression, or experience hallucinations, like the human brain? The question is much less odd than it might seem, ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli20 Apr 20181 min read
Robotic belts for treating scoliosis
Congenital deformities of the spine, like idiopathic scoliosis and pathologic kyphosis, will be able to be corrected in a personalized and more efficient way ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli17 Apr 20181 min read
Light is used to kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria
They are celled NanoZymes, artificial enzymes which could provide important help in the battle against antibiotic resistant infections. Researchers from ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli10 Apr 20181 min read
If a mole could help us find tumours?
A research study carried out by the Federal Polytechnic of Zurich (ETH) in Basel, could provide important news in the field of tumor prevention thanks to the ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli05 Apr 20181 min read
Computers? As good as humans in creating new molecules | IBSA Foundation
We hear more and more talk about artificial intelligence (AI), and sometimes with concern, for the fear that this type of technology could undermine the human ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli03 Apr 20181 min read
New liquid crystal screens as thin as paper | IBSA Foundation
Optoelectronic engineers from the universities of Hong Kong and Shanghai have succeeded in creating a special liquid crystal display (LCD) which is paper-thin, ...
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Paolo Rossi Castelli21 Mar 20181 min read
The immune system helps tattoos to resister
A mechanism that could of explain how pigments stay in the skin such a long time.
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