Agnese is a scientist who loves research and exploration whether in a biology lab or in the meanders of the world. She thinks that trying to understand the physical world and how it is perceived and translated into diverse cultures can eventually blossom into a harmonious integration of disparate visions. Her favorite playground are the mountains.
Liquid biopsies in the future of cancer diagnosis. Today cancer is diagnosed by medical imaging methods and by further histological and sometimes molecular analysis of tissue samples (biopsies) taken directly from the tumor. The exam of tissue biopsies gives an idea of the tumor architecture: cell type and shape, cell organization within the sample and
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Nanoparticles loaded with drugs can help design personalized cancer treatments. Cancer treatment is moving towards personalized therapies that promise better efficacy and less side effects. Tumors of the same type in different patients present in fact subtle differences that may change some of their biological features and their sensitivity to drugs. The design of personalized therapies
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For the first time, an antibody was able to target and disrupt the Aβ plaques in the brain.
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Scientists propose the creation of a synthetic human genome. Do you remember the Human Genome Project (HGP)? Launched in 1990 and declared complete in 2003, it allowed the sequencing of the whole human genome. Scientists could suddenly read the human DNA, base after base- each base being a forming unit of a DNA molecule- in
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