ISSNAF affiliates are invited to attend to the screening of the documentary film "Medici con l'Africa"which will be presented on Friday 7 June, 2013 at 7.30 PM at the Italian Embassy, 3000 Whiteheaven St., N.W., Washington, DC 20008.Doctors with Africa CUAMM is the leading Italian NGO specializing i...

  According to a team of Italian scientists lead by Elisabetta Menna and Andrea Distanza from CNR and their study published by PLOS Biology, the regulation of filopodia plays a crucial role during neuronal development and synaptogenesis. Axonal filopodia, which are known to originate presynapt...

  Two 20 years old Italian scientists, Massimo Cappelletto and Davide Zilli who just one year ago got their diploma at the ISIS “Arturo Malignani” Institute of Udine, reached the second award in the category Energy and Transportation at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the...

A team of young researchers and scientists from the International Scholarship of Relativistic Astrophysics of the International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics (ICRA) at the La Sapienza University in Rome, lead by Professor Remo Ruffini, was able to predetermine the explosion of a Supernova wit...

President of Confindustria Giorgio Squinzi talks about the Italian brain drain as a “real hemorrhage” that the country pays almost 5 billion euros every year and that must be stopped with any possible effort because it affects always more the youngest generation. President Squinzi during a round tab...

The 39 year old Italian researcher Cecilia Martini Bonadeo just won the international award of USD 200.000 sponsored by the cultural foundation Riyadh King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz with a translation work from the ancient Arab of “Harmony” about Platon and Aristotle wrote by the medieval philosopher a...

A team of Italian and American neuroscientists has identified a cellular change in the brain that accompanies obesity. The findings could explain the body's tendency to maintain undesirable weight levels, rather than an ideal weight, and identify possible targets for pharmacological efforts to addre...

The ISSNAF Seattle Chapter Meeting which took place on Thursday May 9th at the Belleuve Arts Museum (BAM) of Belleuve (WA), has been a great success with almost 100 presences during the general meeting and 50 during the official dinner, as confirmed by Chapter member Lorenzo Mannelli. During the eve...

  Alzheimer's disease is characterized by the accumulation of neurotoxic β-amyloid peptide (A-beta). ADAM10, a protein that resides in the neural synapses, has previously been shown to prevent the formation of A-beta. In a study published on the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Monica Di Luc...

Two Italian researchers from La Sapienza University, Claudio Conti and Marco Leonetti, in collaboration with a team of scientists from Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid Cefe Lopez, demonstrated that a new kind of transistor can get power from disordered system, such as liquids, gas or m...

A new research about the conformational switch in HP1 that releases auto-inhibition to drive heterochromatin assembly, lead by the Italian Daniele Canzio, has just been published on Nature magazine. According to the research, a hallmark of histone H3 lysine 9 (H3K9)-methylated heterochromatin, conse...

  After the great success collected with the first edition in 2012, also this year Societa' Italiana di Neurologia (SIN) is promoting an award for the best scientific publication about the research on multiple sclerosis (SM). The award includes a grant of 10.000 euros and is designated to scie...

  The study, called "Endogenous retrotransposition activates oncogenic pathways in hepatocellular carcinoma" comes from a international research nd had just been published on Cell magazine. In the team of researchers, lead by Professor Geoff Faulkner, there are also two groups of Italians from...

  A team of Italian researchers made by chemists, biologists and engineers created a microchip that is able to study the functionality of neurons and compare the results of the different treatments to contrast symptoms of Parkinson and epilepsy. The microchip is organic and bio compatible and ...

  Icgeb, Centro internazionale di ingegneria genetica e biotecnologie of Trieste, lead by Mauro Giacca, is organizing six meeting from may 8th till may 14th that will bring in the city some of the most renewable experts about bio-medic research. Some of the topics that will be discussed are th...

  Thirteen international scientists from all over the world, included the Italians Paolo Bianco, Elena Cattaneo e Michele De Luca, have published a document on Embo Journal (Neture Group) against "decreto Balduzzi", the expedite law approved by the Italian Parliament which allows the use of a ...