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Data notizia: Wed, 14/02/2024 - 15:30
... presentation of
the disease shifted from a severe form of pneumonia to a better-tolerated multi-organ infection,
a change that ... and the success of vaccination - but which also leaves room for
the hypothesis that virus adaptation may have played a role, as it tried ... without interference, thus laying
the foundations for the development of therapeutic and preventive approaches targeting the ... in the natural history of the infection.
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guido antonelli department of molecular medicine ... superiore di sanita, which is laying the foundations for the development of therapeutic and preventive approaches targeting the ...
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Data notizia: Tue, 25/05/2021 - 12:00
... the story of the experience of the lockdown and the desires for the country's recovery; visit the event website and fill out a short google form in the "how to participate" section. the event will include: june 23-24: an international online conference in collaboration with international research network in sport ... with tourism and sports institutions in-person and online; june 25: a round table discussion with the academic, business and sports worlds in-person and online. if you would like to submit questions and ideas to be discussed during ... weeks.
the award ceremony will take place on june 25!
for further information, please mail wecomsport@uniroma1.it
take part in the ... and activities such as sport, tourism and diet. the deadline for submitting your contribution, in italian or english, is june 13.
...
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Data notizia: Thu, 04/04/2019 - 13:00
... the most studied topics in ecology. urban greenery is vital for preserving wildlife within cities. in particular, insects, among the ... within the raccordo anulare showed how these insects, unfortunately, retain a
scarce diversity of parasitoids and pollinators
and ... a way to maintain a high diversity of insects that perform important ecosystem services is a key issue
for maintaining good environmental quality
." the material collected and ... https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214068
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pierfilippo cerretti department of biology and biotechnology ... conservation status of these insects, which are essential for maintaining good environmental quality in large metropolis. the results ...
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Data notizia: Fri, 17/06/2022 - 13:30
sapienza university of rome is at the forefront of scientific research on mosquitoes
, coordinated by the ... collections, which may represent potential breeding sites for the insect such as manhole covers. passionate citizens can also send the ... take a photo of a mosquito and send the shot to the task force of experts.
citizens' reports, once validated, will be included in the ... alert italia. "the quality of the photos sent is fundamental for a valid identification of the species," adds caputo. "experts, again via smartphone, will inform the user about the mosquito photographed and
draw up maps of the species present on the territory, useful for managing and directing disinfestations.
"mosquito alert allows citizens ... and chair of the aim-cost project, "from the most straightforward and most immediate alert through the app, that of bites, to the next ... up to the actual sending of entire mosquito specimens, for the most enthusiastic. downloading the mosquito alert app, is the final ...
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Data notizia: Fri, 19/10/2018 - 13:15
mission bepicolombo is set to take off for mercury from the
kourou space centre in french
guyana
at 3:45 am ... (2004). as such, it rightly stands out as a milestone for the european space agency (esa). the bepicolombo mission has been made ... the analysis of the internal structure will provide information on the primordial cloud that gave birth to the solar system and the ... billion years. moreover, it will also provide
useful information for the study of exoplanets
, many of which orbit around the host start at a ... italy
, and the two great antennas in the deserts of california and malargue in argentina. the exchange of radio signals between the ... the italian spring accelerometer (isa), will measure all forces acting on the probe (other than gravity) to make the measurements as ... of the planet's gravity,
but also the search for possible violations of einstein's theory of general relativity
through ...
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Data notizia: Fri, 08/11/2019 - 11:00
... confirming that it had always been a
crossroads for migration and travel
from every corner of the world. diversity and ... conducted by an international team of geneticists, bioinformaticians, anthropologists, archaeologists and historians from sapienza university and the universities of stanford and vienna, as well as various italian institutions. the results have been ... research, but adds new data and vantage points. for example, 8000 years ago, the area, which was already populated by ... jonathan pritchard, professor of genetics and biology at stanford university and alfredo coppa, professor of physical anthropology at ... however, the most interesting part is still to come for the authors. although rome began as a simple city-state, over the course of ... ancient world," explains prof. pritchard, a member of stanford bio-x. the following centuries were characterized by tumultuous events ... the social history of individuals in ancient rome," underlines ron pinhasi. "our study involved a large number of archaeologists and ...
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Data notizia: Thu, 20/07/2023 - 10:15
... 'tumour-seeking' probe improves the effectiveness of surgery for gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumours (nets).
the probe under study is ... operations, whether traditional or robotic, will therefore be more precise and conservative since it will be possible to detect with ... instead of photons,
can accurately detect certain forms of cancer in areas of the body where they would otherwise be impossible ... ieo, we have been able to validate the probe during surgery for the first time". francesco ceci, director of the nuclear medicine unit and ... "my research has always focused on theranostics, the discipline that combines state-of-the-art diagnostics with precision therapies. when ... that is not even visible on pet scans because it is located, for example, in the small lymph nodes close to the mesenteric vessels. the beta ... to find the disease with the need to preserve vital tissue for the patient".
"it is important to remember that for neuroendocrine tumours, surgery is the only form of radical treatment", ...
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Data notizia: Wed, 26/06/2024 - 12:00
... behind this link by
carrying out in vivo experiments for the first time on specimens of drosophila melanogaster
, the common ... this research showed that
vitamin b6 deficiency can transform benign tumours
expressing the rasv12 oncogene (a gene linked to the formation of neoplasms)
into more aggressive forms
that produce metastases. vitamin b6 is a water-soluble compound with ... of enzymes involved in 4% of metabolic reactions.
therefore, within the delicate cellular balance,
vitamin b6 deficiency results
... and chromosome aberrations.
researchers demonstrated for the first time in vivo the correlation between vitamin b6 deficiency, ... advantages of using the fruit fly as an experimental model for genetic studies, the use of drosophila as a
model organism to study ... tumours in humans
. this experimental model can therefore be used in the future to study the impact of other micronutrient ...
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Data notizia: Wed, 28/09/2022 - 12:00
... board tara, the historic schooner that has been setting sail for the atlantic ocean since 2020 to study the distribution of marine ... ecologist from sapienza university of rome has also boarded for the first time. daniele de angelis, a researcher at the charles darwin ... says de angelis, "and many of the key functions they perform are regulated by microbial species invisible to the human eye. as a matter ... change and microplastic pollution and then to draw guidelines for the management and protection of the atlantic ocean. "our hope," concludes ... https://www.atlanteco.eu/the- project
further information
luigi maiorano department of biology and biotechnology "charles ... and microplastic pollution. the mission aims to draw guidelines for the management and preservation of the atlantic ocean
sapienza in the ...
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Data notizia: Fri, 08/07/2022 - 12:45
it is now known that
vaccine-induced immunity is crucial for the long-term control of the covid-19 pandemic.
however, several ... '
were given a questionnaire to collect personal information and a quantitative serological test was performed to detect anti-s-protein (spike) antibodies to the sars-cov2 virus,
... the sense of responsibility to reach results that, also for covid-19, represent a further incentive to pursue healthy lifestyles. ... many already known correlations, it also took into account for the first time," concludes stefania basili, "many factors including level ... (2022) https://doi.org/10.3390/jpm12060994
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stefania basili department of translational and precision medicine ... in the journal of personalised medicine, pave the way for customisable vaccination programmes
covid-19 vaccination: not only ...
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Data notizia: Tue, 17/05/2022 - 13:00
... interesting observation window into the brain's functions. for this reason, handwriting
monitoring provides useful biological information, especially in neurological patients
: handwriting disorders are ... through artificial intelligence as an innovative system for the remote monitoring, in telemedicine, of neurological patients. the ... carried out in collaboration with the departments of information engineering, electronics and telecommunications of sapienza ... in character width due to physiological ageing
and, therefore, of attributing each writing sample to a specific age group of the ... implications in the neurological field, it can contribute, for instance, to the historical dating of a given document by automatically ... telemedicine methods.
references:
handwriting declines with human aging: a machine learning study
- francesco asci, simone ... https://doi.org/10.3389/fnagi.2022.889930
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antonio suppa department of human neuroscience ...
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Data notizia: Mon, 13/12/2021 - 15:45
... of people's lives, including work, with crucial implications for workers' wellbeing. the spectre of an economic recession, the fear of ... vulnerabilities and key protective factors.
among the former,
job insecurity and insecurity perceptions appear to be associated with worse emotional adjustment,
especially for those with fixed-term contracts.
among the protective elements, ... individual vulnerabilities and resources: positivity, for example, was found to be a key protective factor, decreasing the perception ... https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02408-w
further information
guido alessandri department of psychology ... the journal current psychology, provide an important basis for designing and implementing interventions to support workers in the later ...
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Data notizia: Thu, 25/06/2020 - 12:00
... of the last century; thanks to persistent conservation efforts, such as legal protection and habitat management,
wolves have been ...
where they are more likely to encounter dogs and chances for hybridisation are higher
. concurrently, poaching and hunting activities may disrupt the social cohesion of wolf packs, therefore, allowing greater opportunities for affiliative encounters between wolves and dogs. the research, led by ... considered hybrids.
references:
european agreements for nature conservation need to explicitly address wolf-dog hybridization -
... https://doi.org/10.1016/j. biocon.2020.108525
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paolo ciucci department of biology and biotechnology "charles ... with dogs and urgent necessity of appropriate measures for the proper management of the phenomenon: these are the main points of a new ...
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Data notizia: Wed, 09/07/2025 - 17:30
... scale of recoverable protein sequences and evolutionary information tenfold over the oldest known dna. this research marks a
crucial moment for palaeoproteomics,
the study of ancient proteins. although ancient ... 10 million years), obtaining sufficiently detailed sequences for robust reconstructions of evolutionary relationships was previously limited ... n., hohna, s., cappellini, e., phylogenetically informative proteins from an early miocene rhinocerotid.
nature
, ... s41586-025-09231-4 (2025).
further information:
raffaele sardella department of earth sciences ... of years. this unprecedented result opens up a new frontier for palaeoproteomics, promising to unlock evolutionary secrets dating back far ...
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Data notizia: Mon, 16/10/2023 - 12:00
... of 55, about 15 days after the first vaccine dose and was fortunately relatively rare, with a
frequency of 1:100,000 cases.
in the ... of cardiology, the authors showed that the
antibodies formed in some patients attack not only platelets but also leucocytes by ... discovery," adds violi, "not only opens up new perspectives for understanding how thrombosis occurs in humans, highlighting the crucial ... but will also help in the
development of new drugs for the treatment of myocardial infarction and stroke
. drugs that inhibit ...
2023 doi: 10.1161/atvbaha.123.319522.
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francesco violi department of internal medicine and medical ... published in thrombosis and vascular biology, pave the way for the development of new drugs to treat heart attacks and strokes
covid-19 ...
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Data notizia: Thu, 28/09/2023 - 12:30
... to neurons and their ability to process and transmit information. to support them in this task, glial cells perform a number of structural, energetic and immune functions. some of these, ... points where neurotransmitters are released to spread information between neurons.
for this reason, neuroscientists have long suggested that astrocytes might play ...
active role in synaptic transmission and participate in information processing.
international research, coordinated by andrea volterra ... experiencing an increase in seizures. the study therefore shows that glutamatergic astrocytes also play a role in the regulation of ... in movement control and could offer therapeutic targets for parkinson's disease.
references:
specialized astrocytes mediate ... study, published in the journal nature, open up new paths for the treatment of neurological diseases such as epilepsy or parkinson's ...
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Data notizia: Thu, 16/09/2021 - 12:00
... plays a
fundamental role in cognitive processes and information processing
. during sleep, computational processes such as the formation and consolidation of memory related to events that occurred during ... cells in regulating the sleep-wake cycle is demonstrated for the first time
.
these cells are involved in active immune defence in ... at the level of the hippocampus, a region that is crucial for the formation of long-term memory." this work helps
to unravel the mechanisms ... glia
2021 sep 6 doi: 10.1002/glia.24090
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cristina limatola department of physiology and pharmacology ... published in the journal glia, open up new perspectives for studying how the brain works
sleep-wake cycle: immune cells also ...
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Data notizia: Tue, 30/03/2021 - 12:00
percolation is the basis for understanding a wide range of critically important and very different ... and dispersion, that is, without a progressive loss of the information initially encoded in the wave.
"at the heart of the observed ... controlled. the study results thus open up
new scenarios for information and energy storage in the fields of photonics and electronics
. ...
further information:
ludovica falsi department of physics ludovica.falsi@uniroma1.it ... helps understand the behaviour of innovative materials for storing information and energy
a crystal housing a three-dimensional domino effect ...
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Data notizia: Mon, 11/01/2021 - 10:00
... it is well established that there is a high risk of thrombus formation, leading to devastating consequences such as pulmonary obstruction ... therapies, to cope with the complications of thrombus formation
and reduce the need for intensive care. a new study coordinated by francesco violi of the ... concomitant hypoalbuminemia inhibited blood coagulation.
for one week, 10 covid-19 patients already treated with anticoagulants were ... haemost
2020. doi: 10.1055/s-0040-1721486
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francesco violi department of clinical internal, ... sciences francesco.violi@uniroma1.it
while waiting for the development of a vaccine to defeat the disease, the research group ...
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Data notizia: Tue, 29/09/2020 - 10:45
... varies. the research is part of a series of studies that for decades has seen groups from all over the world engaged in compressing ... create, in the laboratory and at room temperature, a high-performing superconductor
that neither overheats nor disperses energy. these ... make the material particularly interesting
for applications in the energy and electronics
sector and in other contexts ... https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-1009-3
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lorenzo monacelli department of physics ... of physics of sapienza university of rome is at the forefront in the worldwide challenge of hydrogen metallization. the study, ... country, is aimed at developing new highly efficient tools for electronics and the energy sector. the paper has been published on the ...
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Data notizia: Tue, 18/06/2019 - 12:15
... the university of british columbia (canada), the california institute of technology (usa) and the institute of radio astronomy of ... cannot be explained except with new radiation mechanisms. for this emission they are linked to the
rapid rotation of small grains of ... results, which allow to observe andromeda in its entirety for the first time and to analyze effects so far studied only in our galaxy, will allow us to
acquire more information
on the andromeda star formation, its magnetic field and the possibility that laser emissions are ... doi: https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ab21de
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elia stefano battistelli department of physics, sapienza ... the work, which allows to observe andromeda in its entirety for the first time, has been published on astrophysical journal letter
...
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Data notizia: Thu, 16/10/2025 - 12:00
... and portraits of notable figures from the studium urbis.
for the first time,
several busts and portraits from the ancient art ... of portraits includes scholars from a variety of disciplines. giuseppe ducrot, the famous sculptor,
created the bronze portrait of ... us: sapienza museums prenotazioni.pms@uniroma1.it
for the first time, sapienza university is exhibiting busts and portraits of ... open until december 20: an opportunity to visit a long-forgotten and recently restored part of sapienza's rich artistic heritage
...
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Data notizia: Thu, 11/04/2019 - 14:15
la sapienza, in collaboration with the italian agency for development cooperation, the department of biological sciences of the ... activity must always be based on sharing ".
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simone sabatelli department of biology and biotechnology charles ... charles darwin in collaboration with the italian agency for development cooperation, the department of biological sciences of the ...
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Data notizia: Fri, 14/07/2023 - 15:15
... ecosystems. these processes are also leading to a
decline in what is known as nature's contributions to people
(ncps or ecosystem ... been observed that the
loss of biodiversity and the decline of several ncps
, such as climate regulation and pollination (defined ... ncps),
are progressing in parallel.
it has therefore become crucial to understand the spatial relationship between biodiversity ... of sapienza university carried out in collaboration with stanford university, estimates the
importance of regions with high biodiversity ... on three key regulatory ncps that are currently in decline: the regulation of air quality, climate and freshwater quantity. "our ... levels of ncps are present in regions with high biodiversity for all indicators, both in the present and different future scenarios,
... biodiversity value," marta cimatti continues,
"is crucial for the definition of conservation policies
and allows the identification of ... https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01179-5
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marta cimatti department of biology and biotechnology "charles ...
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Data notizia: Mon, 21/02/2022 - 12:00
... research by sapienza university and the max planck institute for the science of human history, published in the journal nature ecology and ... activities between 1250 and 1450 ad, i.e. 100 years before and 100 years after the pandemic.
the international team of scholars ... paleo-science and history group of the max planck institute for the science of human history and coordinated by alessia masi, a researcher ... of agricultural activities and the presence of wild plants before and after the pandemic.
land use due to farming activities and deforestation in pre-industrial times depended on the availability of labour: ... greece and central italy show a substantial agricultural decline, reflecting the high mortality rates already attested in many medieval ... urban areas where it was undoubtedly easier to collect information and keep records but were at the same time characterised by crowding ... -
nature ecology & evolution
(2022)
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alessia masi department of environmental biology ...