Research & Innovation

Pathological anatomy is the medical discipline that studies the morphological changes in cells and tissues caused by disease, enabling diagnosis and the identification of molecular targets for targeted therapies. «Like a detective searching for clues, the pathologist examines biological samples for...

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...

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...

Riccardo Federico Visconti graduated in Dentistry and Dental Prosthetics at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (UniSR) and trained in implantology. A decade later, his multicentre randomised clinical trial was selected as a finalist for the best scientific contribution at the Academy of...

Loss of pulse is the most critical signal of cardiac arrest. According to the American Red Cross, survival odds fall by 10% for every minute CPR and defibrillation are delayed. Every year, millions of people worldwide die from cardiac arrest, and nearly half of all events occur without witnesses,...

The gene responsible for thalassemia was identified with precision by the late 1980s. That early clarity made thalassemia gene therapy one of the first candidates for direct DNA intervention, and decades of research have since moved it from laboratory hypothesis to approved therapy. Two advanced...