I ricercatori dell'EPFL hanno combinato la progettazione di chip a bassa potenza, algoritmi di apprendimento automatico ed elettrodi morbidi impiantabili per produrre un'interfaccia neurale in grado di identificare e sopprimere i sintomi di vari disturbi neurologici....

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Using bottlebrush-shaped particles, researchers can identify and deliver synergistic combinations of cancer drugs. Treating cancer with combinations of drugs can be more effective than using a single drug. However, figuring out the optimal combination of drugs, and...

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Blood platelets can be stored for only up to a week, and hospitals often run short of this life-saving resource. To help overcome this problem, an EPFL startup called HemostOD has developed technology that can produce blood platelets in large volumes and on demand....

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UNIMORE, primo appuntamento di “Cost Action”

La recente infezione da pandemia di COVID19 ha svelato gli importanti problemi della trasmissione degli agenti infettanti dagli animali all'uomo o viceversa. Quasi il 75% delle infezioni umane emergenti in tutto il mondo ha avuto origine da animali. I farmaci ad uso...

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I ricercatori dell’IFOM e dell’Università degli Studi di Milano hanno scoperto che alla base dell’invasività metastatica del carcinoma intraduttale mammario c’è il trasformismo materico delle cellule tumorali, che sono in grado di passare dallo stato solido a quello...

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Columbia Engineering neuroscientists identify a specific neural mechanism in the human brain that tags information with emotional associations for enhanced memory. Most people remember emotional events, like their wedding day, very clearly, but researchers are not...

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Vecna Technologies, founded by a pair of MIT alumni, has followed a long and winding path to help people in health care settings. Since its founding in 1998, Vecna Technologies has developed a number of ways to help hospitals care for patients. The company has...

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A new study identifies cells that are the most vulnerable within a brain structure involved in mood and movement. In patients with Huntington’s disease, neurons in a part of the brain called the striatum are among the hardest-hit. Degeneration of these neurons...

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EPFL researchers have developed a novel approach to network analysis that allows them to reveal and interpret, for the first time, interactions among multiple variables in data from neuroscience, economics, and epidemiology. Many phenomena - brain signals, stock...

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08/05/2025