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Omics and multiomics technologies are among the most dynamic fronts in biomedical research today: single cell omics emerged roughly a decade ago, while spatial omics is exploding right now. We spoke with Giovanni Tonon, full professor at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (UniSR), where he also...

Time perception, the set of cognitive skills that govern how we process time (how much time has passed, for instance) and manage it, is already there in early childhood. As we grow, this sense of time sharpens, because the brain circuits dedicated to attention, working memory and emotion mature...

Bias in medical AI is a concrete problem: it means algorithms that return systematically wrong answers for some groups of patients more often than others. Understanding where it comes from means taking a step back first, to see exactly what bias is and how it differs from two concepts it often gets...

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...