Science has no boundaries. International collaborations are a sine qua non of the work of researchers and their training. And the more does that work rely on the “solitude” of those labs where connections and relationships with the rest of the world develop, the stronger it gets.

It’s nice to hear how an Italian team – formed in the US, but that has now settled in Italy – didn’t only take part into the American “Genome Project,” but also offered an essential contribution to this important page of the history of Biology. Yes, Biology: with a capital “B.”