Professor Paolo Vineis and Dr Toby Athersuch explain how the Exposomics project will help us understand the effects pollutants have on the body.
The two GRACE satellites are making detailed measurements of Earth's gravity field with a revolutionaring way of investigating Earth's water reservoirs, large-scale solid earth changes, ice cover, and oceans.
This animation is from the GRACE Tellus project, and aid in the interpretation of gravity change over the oceans, providing ocean bottom pressure (OBP) derived from the GRACE satellites. OBP is the sum of the mass of the atmosphere and ocean in a 'cylinder' above the seafloor.
An illness reproduced by using a human tissue which houses an electronic chip: this is the original result achieved by a research team of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering researchers at Harvard University. The work beyond the lung on a chip is explained in a paper published this week in Science Traslation medicine.
An international team of astronomers, whilst reconstructing how the pace of the formation of new stars has changed throughout the history of the Universe, discovered that we presently find ourselves faced with a genuine demographic decrease.
At present, there is lots of focus on discussions for MIUR (Ministry of Education, Universities and Research) to establish an Agency, ANVUR (National Agency for Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes), with the objective of assessing the scientific results of various Italian research groups. There is no doubt over the importance of such activity as the Group2003 demonstrated in their constituent Manifesto and repeated multiple times.
On the 13 November, some members of the European Parliament in Brussels, even via live streaming, discussed the research and development budget for the next framework program. The subject is very topical as it is estimated that the economic crisis may affect the future expenses of a sector which is increasingly receiving less support on a national level in many countries, amongst which, Italy.
Those amongst us, who, in the last year of secondary school, studied the Second World War, probably remember a rather dark and extremely controversial event: the flight of Hess (Rudolf Hess), in May 1941, from Germany to the United Kingdom, on board his Messerschmitt. The story of this flight is told in a book, The Flight of Rudolf Hess, published many years ago and before his death, in 1987, at the age of 93, in Spandau prison in suspicious circumstances. Fewer of us would have heard talk of yet another
On Oct 17th, 2012, on the verge of the 2012 seasonal flu vaccine campaign, the Italian Ministry of Health suddenly announced the recall of 2.3 million doses of the Inflexal V flu vaccine, produced by the Dutch company Crucell. "Potential danger" to health was claimed for the recall. This news rapidly spread with alarm.
The Ministry of Health reassured the population that security problem should not be expected because no dose was put into circulation.
A case of pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus, temporarily named nCov-EMC, has been confirmed by the Ministry of Health of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The patient, who is now recovering and out of intensive care, is a man who has been hospitalized in Ryadh a few days ago, with symptoms of an acute respiratory syndrome. He has no significant travel history and, one week prior to disease onset, he reports having visited a farm.
A link between influenza A virus and type 1 diabetes has been discovered by the research team led by Ilaria Capua, group leader of the World Organisation for Animal Health reference laboratory for avian flu in Legnaro, Italy.
Type 1 diabetes often appears suddenly after an infection and is caused by an inflammatory response that targets the pancreatic cells that produce insulin, destroying them. For these reasons, a connection between this disease and a viral trigger has been hypothesized in the last 40 years, but nobody managed to demonstrate it.
