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 ...

A team of scientists lead by Professor Dongsheng Cai from the Albert Einstein Institute of New York, just discovered that on rats there is a specific molecule that progressively send messages to the different tissues of their body and that determine their ageing. "If this molecule, called NF-kB an...

  Silvia Selleri, Post-doc fellow at the CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center of Montreal, was awarded with a scholarship grant of the value of 150.000 dollars to continue and increase her studies about the immunobiology of HSC transplantation and on the physiology and possible immunomodulation ...

The Italian Embassy in Ottawa is sponsoring an event called "Nutrition: Research, Innovation and Markets" which will take place in Montreal and Toronto on the 8th and the 10th of October 2013. In the last years, international bilateral cooperation between Italy and Canada in scientific research and ...