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Anti-Covid-19 vaccines: where do we stand?
Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the international scientific community immediately worked for the preparation of one or more safe and effective vaccines to prevent infection with SARS-CoV-2 and the possible clinical evolution into the serious disease known as Covid-19.
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CRISPR/Cas9, the revolutionary Nobel-winning “genetic scissors”
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier for their fundamental contribution to the discovery of an effective method of genetic editing, i.e. a precision intervention that allows the introduction of desired modifications within DNA in simple,...
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RNA polymerase, the SARS-CoV-2 “sloppy photocopier”
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has forced the scientific community to devote itself to the research and development of various strategies to fight SARS-CoV-2 infection. The only informed way to identify new antivirals is through the knowledge of the three-dimensional structure, literally the...
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Strategies for vaccine development: an overview
A vaccine is an immunization strategy against pathogens or their toxins, administered in order to prevent one or more infectious diseases through the exposure of the immune system to their components,
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Structural biology for SARS-CoV-2: the Spike protein
The ongoing COVID-19 epidemic has forced the scientific community to devote itself to the research and development of various strategies to fight SARS-CoV-2 infection. The only informed way to identify new antivirals is through the knowledge of the three-dimensional structure, literally the shape,...
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Cryo-EM: small electrons for large molecules
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has forced the scientific community to devote itself to the research and development of various strategies to fight SARS-CoV-2 infection. The only informed way to identify new antivirals is through the knowledge of the three-dimensional structure, literally the shape,...
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“Blunting” the SARS-CoV-2 scissors
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has forced the scientific community to devote itself to the research and development of various strategies to fight SARS-CoV-2 infection. The only informed way to identify new antivirals is through the knowledge of the three-dimensional structure, literally the...
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X-ray crystallography for SARS-CoV-2
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has forced the scientific community to devote itself to the research and development of various strategies to fight SARS-CoV-2 infection. The only informed way to identify new antivirals is through the knowledge of the three-dimensional structure, literally the...
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AI-SCoRE: artificial intelligence to calculate the risk of COVID-19
The artificial intelligence project was born from a partnership with UniSR as leader and the collaboration of Microsoft and Nvidia. It will allow to distinguish, already in the early stages of the disease, the patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 who will develop the most serious form of the...
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San Raffaele: the first brain surgery with a robotiscope
In recent days at the San Raffaele Research Hospital, a neurosurgical intervention, removal of a brain tumor, with the use of a robotiscope, a digitally controlled robotic device with three-dimensional visualization, was successfully performed for the first time in the world. The operation was...