Research & Innovation

Chronic hepatitis B (HBV) remains one of the world's major public health challenges, and finding a functional cure for the infection is one of the toughest goals in virology today. More than 250 million people live with a chronic infection, at risk of developing cirrhosis, liver failure and...

Vitiligo is an autoimmune disease that destroys melanocytes, the cells responsible for skin pigmentation, and affects between 0.5 and 2% of the world’s population. Behind the characteristic depigmented patches lies a complex network of biological mechanisms involving the immune system, genetic...

A century of oncology has established one principle above all others: accurate diagnosis determines treatment. Hematologic cancer classification is the infrastructure that makes accurate diagnosis possible. Today, under the same tumour type, pathologists can recognise more than 120 distinct...

The aging population is often reduced to numbers: rising life expectancy, falling birth rates, pension sustainability, pressure on health systems. Yet behind the figures sits a question that public budgets and demographic indicators never ask directly: who has a right to the future?

One Health and Circular Health are two frameworks that are reshaping how medicine thinks about health, no longer as a problem confined to hospitals and laboratories, but as a systemic issue involving the environment, the economy, and society. That is the argument Professor Ilaria Capua, virologist...

The volume of research on artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine has grown sharply. According to a bibliometric review published as a preprint on medRxiv (Awasthi et al., 2024), the number of articles on AI and machine learning in healthcare indexed on PubMed rose from 3,351 in 2019 to 23,306 in...

Andes virus is the only hantavirus for which sustained human-to-human transmission has been documented. That distinction sets it apart from all other members of the hantavirus family and explains why the outbreak recorded in April 2026 aboard the ship Hondius triggered a coordinated response from...

Although peripheral nerves can regenerate after injury, recovery is often poor in the elderly, in people with conditions such as diabetes, or after particularly severe trauma. The vascular system actively supports nerve repair by shaping the healing environment and protecting neural tissue through...

Treatment-resistant depression, substance use disorders, anxiety disorders: for some psychiatric conditions, existing therapies do not always suffice. It is precisely from this unmet therapeutic need that neuropharmacology research has, in recent years, been living what researchers call the...