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«Ci hanno tenuti sul filo per tre anni. Ma finalmente il brevetto americano è stato concesso». Una gran massa di capelli corvini e due occhi di carbone che brillano emozionati: la scienziata Maria Grano non nasconde la soddisfazione. La «sua» creatura, quella molecola Irisina che sconfigge l’osteoporosi, ha superato l’ultimo ostacolo burocratico pe...

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Scadono lunedì 3 febbraio 2020 i termini per partecipare al bando del Fulbright Research Fellowship in Computer Science che si terrà presso l’International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) di Berkeley nell’anno accademico 2020-2021. La Fellowship è stata istituita dalla Commissione per gli Scambi Culturali fra l’Italia e gli Stati Uniti e l’Intern...

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Ci voleva un esperto di Medioevo, un cacciatore di documenti d’archivio, per smentire uno dei luoghi comuni del made in Italy: quello che vuole la Franciacorta del vino come una zona creata dal nulla da qualche imprenditore di mondi lontani, dal tessile alle costruzioni. Gabriele Archetti, medievista con cattedra alla Cattolica di Milano e trono al...

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An entire ankle rebuilt with a 3D printed custom prosthesis: it is the first time in the world and the implantation took place on October 9 at the Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute in Bologna. The operation, illustrated today at a press conference, took place on a 57-year-old patient who had lost ankle joint function following a serious motorbike accide...

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An Italian-led study has found a link between the Escherichia coli bacteria and heart attacks. According to the research conducted on 150 people and led by Francesco Violi of Rome's Umberto I university hospital, the bacteria was found in the circulatory system of patients and in the blocked arteries that caused the heart attacks. The study paper h...

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In an underground laboratory deep beneath a mountain in Central Italy, an array of crystals, chilled to within a hair of absolute zero – the coldest possible temperature in the universe – has been steadily compiling one of the most precise measurements to date in pursuit of a rare particle process. If it is proven to exist, this process may well be...

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Hypnosis has been used to operate on atrial fibrillation, a heart condition, for the first time in Italy. Hypnosis was used for analgesic or painkilling purposes, doctors said. Doctor Luca Bacino used it in the electrophysiological room of the San Paolo Hospital in the northwestern city of Savona. Bacino has introduced hypnosis into clinical practi...

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Italians have had bad breakfast habits for quite a long time, but fortunately our way of dealing with “prima colazione” has been changing. Our physical and mental capabilities strongly depend on this ever-important first meal of the day. Forget about this and you may end up paying the consequences dearly: from obesity to a higher probability to pic...

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There is a little bit of Naples in the extraordinary discovery of Nasa, the US space agency, which has identified a new habitable planet, similar to Earth: it is an extrasolar planet whose discovery was made thanks to Tess, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite space telescope. There are also two Neapolitans in the team that led the search for:...

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In May 2016, Roberto Burioni, a virologist at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan, Italy, was asked to appear on a popular TV talk show to face off against two opponents of vaccines—a former DJ, Red Ronnie, and an actress and TV personality, Eleonora Brigliadori. The host gave most of the air time to the Italian celebrities. Then, with jus...

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