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Plant Foods and Human Health - Researchers in Italy are looking at the healthy and unhealthy compounds in our food
Annalisa Tassoni
University of Bologna
We are what we eat, according to the old adage, but how much do we really know about the...
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Computer-assisted modelling for the discovery of new drugs
Alessandro Paiardini
University of Rome, La Sapienza
The greatest wish of many of us suffering from a common cold, as well as those with more serious...
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Built to lurk: the regulatory circuit behind stomach bugs
Alberto Danielli
University of Bologna
In the late seventies, if you had a stomach ache or gastritis your doctor would probably have...
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Save frogs to save humans: how frog skin can help treat human infections
Maria Luisa Mangoni
University of Rome – La Sapienza
Frogs and humans seem worlds apart: they hop, we stroll; they eat flies, we eat fries. But the...
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Darwin’s dream
Hugues Roest Crollius
Ecole Normale Supérieure - CNRS
The principles of evolution first outlined by Charles Darwin in 1859 affect every living organism,...
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Why do cancer cells play out of tune?
Alessandro Fatica
University of Rome, La Sapienza
Try to imagine that what is happening within our cells is a sort of ‘symphony’. The music is...
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Counting on the Tree of Life
Simone Giannerini
University of Bologna
An octopus can count; some birds can count; you can count; but is it possible that your DNA can...
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Searching for Prometheus: Cell therapy and tissue engineering for heart disease
Giacomo Frati
Università di Roma La Sapienza
Italian researchers are engineering human stem cells to repair damaged hearts.
In Greek mythology,...