Research & Innovation

Biological aging explains why life expectancy in Italy has doubled in just a century, rising from 40 to over 80 years. A century ago, families rarely lived long enough to see their grandchildren grow up, and adults barely past forty already looked elderly. Today the picture has changed: couples...

Research & Innovation

In May 2026, early Alzheimer’s diagnosis took a concrete step forward: several blood tests received CE marking in Europe under the IVDR regulation. That approval allows them to run on automated platforms in clinical laboratories, at a scale that wasn’t possible before. As recently as 2024, blood...

Student Life & Campus

Test anxiety is not simple nervousness. It is a physiological and cognitive response that, according to the most recent surveys, affects a substantial proportion of Italian students, from secondary school through university. Sweaty palms before walking into the exam hall. A mind that goes blank at...

Research & Innovation

Immunology research is redrawing the very idea of the immune system: not a uniform army that tells friend from foe, but a set of responses that shift from tissue to tissue, and sometimes within the same organ. That was the throughline at Tissue Immunity and Neuro-Immune Interactions, the first...

Programs & Careers

In the daily practice of an emergency department, urgent and emergency cases come down to one thing above all: teamwork. At UniSR's Emergency Medicine Residency Programme, directed by Prof. Paola Maffi, the first skill residents need to learn is exactly that: working alongside other professionals,...