I am an Italian scientist and my field of expertise is cancer research. The majority of my posts belong to popular science field, because I aim to spread science to make it a more accessible and understandable discipline for everyone. Because I like to travel, my blog contains also tourism-related posts.
Qualche giorno fa, un amico mi ha mostrato un articolo che declamava l’inutilità dei vaccini siccome una malattia è in grado di diffondersi in una popolazione vaccinata contro la stessa. […]
Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a report titled “Public Spending on Health: A Closer Look at Global Trends”. The topic is sensitive, because it concerns how much money […]
Fake news are the cancer of correct information, and they need to be fought. Both popular science and artificial intelligence can do a lot in this war.
Usually, anti-vaxxers make improper use of scientific literature to support their lies. In this post I explain you how to identify a fake-science article and how to properly interpret vaccine-related literature.
Rispetto a qualche decennio fa, adesso prestiamo molta più attenzione alla nostra salute, grazie ai continui nuovi consigli che riceviamo per migliorare il nostro stile di vita. Questo cambiamento si […]
L’intelligenza artificiale sta diventando sempre più rilevante nelle questioni sanitarie. Come ho accennato qui, l’epidemia di Ebola tra il 2014 e il 2016 è stata controllata solo dopo l’introduzione dell’intelligenza […]
In this post, I will focus on a group of diseases that is unique in its features: prion diseases. They are caused by misfolding of prion protein (see further), and […]
Compared to few decades ago, nowadays we pay much more attention to our health. This is because, every now and then, some new findings highlight lifestyle tips that have positive […]
Artificial intelligence is becoming more and more relevant in healthcare matters. As I mentioned here, Ebola outbreak was controlled only after artificial intelligence was introduced in the campaign against the […]
In this post I will write about a very sensitive health-related issue: autism. I will summarize its features, focusing on potential causes and clarifying the autism-vaccines debate. Let’s begin with […]
Information and curiosities about vaccines. Real facts against anti-vaxxers plots
Recently, scrolling my Facebook wall, I found a post published by World Health Organization (WHO) about schistosomiasis. I didn’t know what it was, so I decided to learn more about […]
Grazie ai progressi della genetica, incluso il sequenziamento del DNA e l’annotazione di migliaia di variazioni nella sua sequenza che possono predisporre a sindromi o malattie ereditarie, i test genetici […]
Thanks to the great improvements in genetics, including the completion of DNA sequencing and the recording of thousands of variations in the DNA sequence that can predispose to syndromes or […]
C’è qualcosa che accomuna Robert de Niro in “Casino”, Sharon Stone in “Basic Instinct”, Audrey Hepburn in “Colazione da Tiffany” e Clint Eastwood in “Il buono, il brutto e il […]
What’s a common action among Robert de Niro in “Casino”, Sharon Stone in “Basic Instinct”, Audrey Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and Clint Eastwood in “The Good, the Bad, and the […]
Allacciate le cinture di sicurezza prima di accendere l’auto? Controllate che la strada sia libera prima di attraversarla? Se rispondete sì ad entrambe le domande, ben fatto. Ma perché lo […]
Do you fasten your seat-belt before starting your car? Do you check that the street is free before crossing it? If you answer yes to both questions, well done. But […]
In questo post voglio parlarvi della più comune malattia non traumatica che provoca disabilità fisica tra i giovani adulti: la sclerosi multipla. Cos’è la sclerosi multipla? Come al solito, […]
Ogni volta che qualcosa di nuovo viene introdotto nella vita quoitidiana, è importante che le persone che ne faranno uso siano informate al riguardo, per evitare fraintendimenti e confusione. A […]
