The placebo effect? Real, strong and still mysterious
The power of autosuggestion can be very strong, but the details of the brain mechanisms that lead to these results had never been revealed.
Women at a disadvantage in US research laboratories
Female researchers are still underrepresented in key roles compared to their male colleagues.
140,000 different types of viruses in our gut
Surprising study published in the journal Cell. Many of these viruses infect gut bacteria.
Cells are good at using “collective intelligence”
Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute in London have uncovered the way that cells “decide” together how to build new blood vessels.
Can a virus slow down pancreatic cancer?
British and Chinese researchers have genetically modified the Vaccinia virus, making it capable of infecting and destroying cancer cells.
New frontiers of science for Health: in the dialogue between Art, technological and digital innovation
Casa Paganini develops new technology and interactive multimedia systems combined with Art to assist with therapies and rehabilitation.
Covid – schizophrenia is a high-risk factor
According to a study, people with this disease are three times more likely to die from Covid than the average person
Breast cancer – androgens to boost therapies
Male hormones, used many years ago and then abandoned (due to their excessive side effects), are now being used once again
“Heating” chemoteraphy to make it more effective
The chemotherapy of the future could be administered through nanometre particles and heated by magnetic fields.
Surprise: the Covid pandemic has got rid of the flu
Of the many things brought by Covid-19, there is one that has left researchers baffled: the disappearance of the classic flu, or almost.
Tu Youyou, the Nobel Prize for her work on malaria
Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize in Medicine, together with William C. Campbell and Satoshi Omura, for her important work on the cure for malaria.
Magnetic bacteria for super-precise anti-cancer treatments
A team from ETH Zurich is studying a new way, with an added element of science fiction, to make anti-cancer drugs reach the right point inside the body of ...
May, the neuroscientist who reconstructed the map of our brain
May Britt-Moser won the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2014 together with her husband Edvard I. Moser and John O'Keefe, thanks to her studies on neuroscience, ...
Play contributes to individual and collective wellbeing
Gamification is one of the trends of investment in health, applied to the awareness, prevention, monitoring and even treatment of diseases.
Intestinal bacteria shapes the immune system | IBSA Foundation
There is a very close link between our immune system and intestinal microbiota (i.e. all the "good" bacteria that live in our intestines)
Carol, the youngest woman to win the Noble Prize in Medicine
Carol W. Greider won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine, along with Elizabeth Blackburn and Jack Szostak, for her research on cellular ageing
Hunting for patients' secrets who resist cancer
We have known for a long time that a small number of cancer patients react in an extraordinarily effective way to treatment. These people, called exceptional ...
Elizabeth, the explorer of cellular ageing
Elizabeth Blackburn won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine, along with Carol Greider and Jack Szostak, for her research on cellular ageing and in particular on ...