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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...
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Light therapy to cure psychiatric disorders
That light affects mood is not new, but that it can have a decisive positive impact in the treatment of patients with psychiatric disorders is extraordinary, especially considering the very solid scientific foundations on which this assumption is based.
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Journey to the Center of the Virus: what SARS-CoV-2 looks like
“Coronavirus” is a large family of viruses known to cause illness ranging from the common cold to more serious illness such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).