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Researchers at Rome's Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital and the Italian capital's Tor Vergata University, working with other European and US research centres, have discovered the missing piece of the jigsaw explaining how tumour cells proliferate, according to a study published in Nature and backed by Italian cancer research association AIRC. The st...

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The Covid-19 pandemic has hit Italian exports hard, with a -9.7% drop in 2020. However, many companies have quickly converted to e-commerce, recovering some or all of the lost ground. Exports through online sales of consumer goods have in fact reached the value of 13.5 billion euros, with a growth of +14% in 2020. And so, according to the Osservato...

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Innovitalia è un portale web promosso dal Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale e dal Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca per la diffusione di informazioni e la creazione di opportunità di networking per i ricercatori, le imprese e le istituzioni italiane nello scenario internazionale, contribuendo alla promozione...

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Il XXIII convegno della Siaip, Società italiana di allergologia e immunologia pediatrica si tiene, online, dal 22 al 24 aprile (siaip.it). L’intervento di Anthony Fauci (che pubblichiamo qui sopra), con la consegna virtuale delle chiavi di Sciacca da parte della sindaca Francesca Valenti, è atteso alle 17.30 nella giornata di apertura. Sono emozion...

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The Leonardo da Vinci Society and the Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation (ISSNAF) Bay Area Chapter are seeking applications for the Leonardo Award 2021. This award was established in 2019 on the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death to recognize the outstanding contributions of Italian/Italian American early career...

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Join us on April 15 for an online event in celebration of the 2021 Giornata della Ricerca Italiana nel Mondo. At 2:00 pm EST, following a welcome greeting by Consul Maria Manca, we will screen the short documentary "Il sapore del futuro" (The Taste of the Future, 23 min.), produced by the National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci...

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It was Harlock's first day at coronavirus training school and she already showed promise.  The one-year-old German Shepherd's task on Wednesday morning was simply to place her slightly wet nose on a black tube. "Sniff," encouraged her trainer, Mr Massimiliano Macera, who was quick to reward his furry student with treats whenever nose met tube.  "Sh...

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The journal Cell Death & Disease (Nature) has published an international study on COVID-19 coordinated by Professors Giuseppe Novelli (University of Tor Vergata – University of Nevada, USA) and Pier Paolo Pandolfi (University of Turin – University of Nevada, USA), in collaboration with the Bambino Gesù Hospital (Rome), Istituto Spallanzani (Rome),...

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When science writer and Puget Sound resident Eric Scigliano was commissioned to write a book about climate change, he was excited to have the opportunity to travel to Alaska. His research would take him to a remote spot on the west coast where the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers flow into the Bering Sea, which is one of the largest deltas in the world,...

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A giant cloud of ash and gases released by Vesuvius in 79 AD took about 15 minutes to kill the inhabitants of Pompeii, research suggests. The estimated 2,000 people who died in the ancient Roman city when they could not escape were not overwhelmed by the lava, but rather asphyxiated by the gases and ashes and later covered in volcanic debris to lea...

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