
A look into the future: diagnosis of cancer through blood analysis
Today I will tell you about a topic that is gaining relevance in the field of cancer diagnosis. As you have already heard thousand times, in order to cure a […]
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.
Today I will tell you about a topic that is gaining relevance in the field of cancer diagnosis. As you have already heard thousand times, in order to cure a […]
Uno studio recente condotto in Cina/USA, pubblicato da Zhang e colleghi, ha rivelato che l’aumento lineare dell’indice di massa corporea (IMC) durante l’adolescenza ha un’alta correlazione con il diabete di […]
A recent study made in China/USA published by Zhang and colleagues revealed that increase of body mass index (BMI) during adolescence has a high correlation with adult type 2 diabetes […]
In this post I want to tell you about the most common non-traumatic disabling disease among young adults: multiple sclerosis. Let’s see first, what is multiple sclerosis? As usual, […]
Ogni essere vivente conserva tutte le informazioni che lo rappresentano nel proprio DNA. Con un linguaggio extrascientifico, potremmo definire il DNA come il manuale d’istruzioni del nostro corpo. Noi siamo […]
Each living organism, including humans of course, store all the information in the DNA. In a non-technical way, we can define the DNA as the body’s instruction manual. We are […]
Ho già dedicato un post (qui, in inglese) per spiegare come e quanto siano diffusi i tumori. In questo post mi concentrerò invece su come i tumori insorgono. Sappiamo che […]
I’ve already dedicated a post (here) to describe how frequent tumors are. In this post I will focus instead on how tumors arise. We know that viruses and bacteria are […]
What do we know about DNA? A lot, but not everything yet. I am a biologist and DNA has been my Polar Star during the last 10 years (moving from […]
In September 2018, the International Association of Cancer Registries (IACR) released the last version (currently) of the GLOBOCAN database, which contains estimates of cancer incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 […]
It’s a question that spontaneously arises whenever we hear of someone dying of cancer. The discovery of antibiotics and the invention of vaccines drastically reduced the number of deaths due […]
Si tratta di una domanda che sorge spontanea ogni qualvolta sentiamo di qualcuno che muore di tumore. La scoperta degli antibiotici e l’invenzione dei vaccini hanno ridotto drasticamente il numero […]
I visited Stockholm for the first time in summer 2009. I was a tourist, travelling through Scandinavian countries by car with a couple of friends. I was amazed by Sweden’s […]
Cosa sono i vaccini? Non sono altro che un allenamento per il corpo umano, per stimolarlo a produrre anticorpi contro un determinato virus o (in alcuni casi) batterio. Infatti, i […]