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Data notizia: Thu, 31/01/2019 - 15:00
... the growing interest in the study of this class of information macromolecules. the circrna have only recently been identified thanks ... "charles darwin", in collaboration with the center for life nano science of the italian institute of technology (iit), has ...
. by observing the behavior of this class of rna in the formation of muscle cells, the team of researchers led by irene bozzoni, from ... this regulation - the set of processes that make up a signal for the cell that receives them and which then translates into changes or alterations - and therefore in which phases intervene to block the mechanism. "by demonstrating that this circular rna molecule
represents a new target for counteracting tumor growth
,"
concludes bozzoni, "we have added an ... https://doi.org/10.1038/s41388-019-0699-4
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irene bozzoni department of biology and biotechnology "charles ... muscle. the research, which opens up new perspectives for the treatment of cancer, has been published in the journal oncogene
...
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Data notizia: Fri, 07/09/2018 - 12:15
... european commission has used additional funding available for the marie sklodowska-curie individual fellowships call 2017, to fund two ... integrates a varies of geophysical data (seismic, gravity, deformation) with a 3d numeric inversion. the ability to interpret changes in seismicity, land deformation and gravimetry can help predict volcanic eruptions and predispose ... cotsen institute of archaeology and the university of california los angeles (ucla), is based on the complete archive of the acacus and ... of rock art in the lybian sahara. it will be custom-tailored for scientific research, cultural heritage management and communication activities. in general, project asart-data aims to reinforce the ties between archaeological/anthropological studies and contemporary ... join six other projects that were previously approved for the
marie sklodowska-curie individual fellowships call 2017,
... european commission has used additional funding available for the marie sklodowska-curie individual fellowships call 2017, to fund two ...
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Data notizia: Mon, 19/03/2018 - 12:30
... them to grow more slowly. neural stem cells are responsible for the production of new neurons in the adult brain. as we age, it becomes harder for neural stem cells to produce new neurons and this may lead to a decline in the brain cognitive abilities. by comparing the genetic activity in ... an improved knowledge of the mechanisms causing cognitive decline during aging. "we now plan to use genetics and neural stem cells - giuseppe lupo concludes - to try turning back the clock for older cells and rescue their growth deficit. the results obtained with ... as a candidate regulator of age-associated neurogenic decline. -
giuseppe lupo, paola s. nisi, pilar esteve, yu-lee paul, clara lopes ... published: 5 march 2018 doi: 10.1111/acel.12745
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giuseppe lupo, emanuele cacci department of biology and ... in brain aging. these include the dbx2 gene responsible for slowing down the growth of neural stem cells. the study has been published ...
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... in particular, sapienza offers training opportunities for acquiring:
transversal skills
- personal characteristics and skills ... to feedback, etc.
job orientation
- strategies for an effective job search, discovering production trends and the most ... of functional, social or personal goals. the courses for the development of transversal, work-oriented and entrepreneurial skills can be online or in person.
target audience
: students, graduands, recent sapienza graduates
workload
: you can ... and individual interviews. open badges can be acquired if students attend such activities for more than 10 hours. for example: employability lab , promoted by sapienza career service and ...
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Data notizia: Mon, 07/04/2025 - 12:00
... sclerosis
has opened up new perspectives not only for treating but also for preventing this disease especially as far as prevention is concerned,
a ...
of the sant'andrea-sapienza multiple sclerosis centre. for
rosella mechelli,
professor at the san raffaele telematic university ... which immunological mechanisms are most relevant, also for the design of future therapies.' 'these are very important and innovative ... research at aism-fism. 'these results will provide useful information on the strategy of developing personalised anti-ebv vaccines.
the ... r. pizzolato umeton, e. anastasiadou, p. trivedi, a. fornasiero, m. ferraldeschi, imsgc wtccc2, a. di sapio, g. marfia, e. cocco, d. ... (2025).
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marco salvetti department of neurosciences, mental health and ... linking the virus to the disease and paves the way for selective vaccination and new therapies. the study, funded by the ...
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Data notizia: Thu, 14/03/2024 - 10:00
for the first time, a bone organoid,
i.e. a three-dimensional replica of ... to study the mechanisms and test more effective treatments for this rare genetic paediatric disease that affects one in 100,000 children ... absence of the enzyme that in the human body is responsible for the 'disposal' of certain sugar chains, called glycosaminoglycans. the ... the bones of patients suffering from this condition, is therefore a valuable model to observe the mechanisms of the disease with even ... created from skeletal stem cells, cells that are essential for generating bone tissue, taken from the bone marrow of young patients," says ... - "these cells generated cartilage, which was then transformed into bone tissue and bone marrow in the three-dimensional model. it was ... rare diseases given the difficulty of obtaining and, therefore, analysing tissue samples, particularly from paediatric patients". hurler syndrome is the most severe form of mucopolysaccharidosis type 1, a rare genetic disorder that, in turn, is ...
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Data notizia: Thu, 03/02/2022 - 14:00
... unesco and sapienza, the new chair of education and research for improved urban health and wellbeing in cities has been launched. the chair, ...
an integrated system of research, training and information on urban health and wellbeing.
the project will facilitate
... unesco and sapienza, the new chair of education and research for improved urban health and wellbeing in cities has been launched. the chair, ... promoting an integrated system of research, training and information on urban health and wellbeing
new unesco chair on education and ...
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Data notizia: Mon, 17/01/2022 - 12:00
... with rai president marinella soldi. the italian minister for family and equal opportunities, elena bonetti, will also be attending. no ... republic has also endorsed the project. watch the event online
on tuesday, january 18, at 4:00 pm, at the rai headquarters in rome, ... with rai president marinella soldi. the italian minister for family and equal opportunities, elena bonetti, will also be attending
no ...
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Data notizia: Thu, 13/01/2022 - 09:15
... public health sciences to anthony fauci. the award was given for fauci's fundamental role in the
study of infectious and immune-mediated ... learned and remaining challenge."
the award was given for fauci's fundamental role in the study of infectious and immune-mediated ...
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Data notizia: Thu, 05/11/2020 - 12:30
... the extensive use of pesticides, with serious consequences for soil and groundwater pollution. an eco-compatible solution involves
... of the fungus
." the results of the study are useful for a wide range of applications in the biotechnological field, suggest that ... in the genetic improvement of plants of agronomic interest for the development of varieties with improved resistance to a large number of ... diseases
,
without the use of pesticides dangerous for human health and the environment.
references:
atpme17 is a ... 2020. doi https://doi.org/10.1111/mpp.13002
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vincenzo lionetti department of biology and biotechnology "charles ... pathogens and in particular of botrytis cinerea, responsible for grey mould in numerous plant species including vines, tomatoes and ...
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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
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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
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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: 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 ...