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Alleanza italo-statunitense nel settore della medicina nucleare per la produzione di radiofarmaci, in grado di minimizzare gli effetti collaterali e tossicologici nella diagnosi e cura di patologie tumorali. L’accordo è stato firmato oggi, 9 gennaio, dal fondatore di Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Lou Centofanti, e dal presidente di ENEA, Federi...

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Italy is to design modules for the future space station orbiting the Moon, sources said Thursday. Contracts worth some $2.5 million plus co-funding have been signed by Thales Alenia Space (Thales 67%, Leonardo 33%) with Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Orbital-ATK within the framework of the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships promoted...

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Scientists in Rome have unveiled the first bionic hand with a sense of touch that can be worn outside a laboratory. In 2014 the same global team produced the world's first feeling bionic hand. Unfortunately, the system was too large to leave the laboratory. This breakthrough is the result of many years of robotic research carried out by teams in It...

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New progress in the personalized treatment of cancer has been made by a group of researchers from Columbia University, led by Italians Antonio Iavarone and Anna Lasorella. “We have discovered the mechanism behind an important genetic alteration that causes a large percentage of cancers, including glioblastoma, the most aggressive and lethal type of...

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ICE-Agenzia lancerà a Milano il 21 febbraio 2018 un ciclo di roadshow tecnologici negli Stati Uniti, aperti alla partecipazione di imprese italiane. Nell'occasione istituzioni, centri di ricerca e mondo imprenditoriale dei due Paesi si confronteranno sull'evoluzione tecnologica del settore manifatturiero e sulla possibilità di lavorare insieme in q...

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When Alice Accorsi, PhD, first encountered the freshwater snail Pomacea canaliculata, it was as an invasive pest of crops and the intermediate host of a parasitic roundworm that can cause human encephalitis. Accorsi, then a graduate student at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Modena, Italy, was searching for vulnerabilities in the snai...

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«Prendo o carro e vado a fare un bisinisse». La parlata dei «bravi ragazzi» di Broccolino immortalati dai film di Scorsese e Coppola è ormai entrata nell’immaginario collettivo. Ma non c’erano solo loro. Quanti italiani sono emigrati ovunque nel mondo nel secolo scorso? Solo nel 1916, anno-record, fecero le valigie 872.598 italiani (dati Istat). E...

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Quagga is the innovative Italian company that has recently hit the French crowdfunding Ulule. Quagga is the first Italian company committed in making clothing exclusively using recycled fibres without any harmful substance. On Ulule – platform having 68% success rate – Quagga launched its new project Q-bottles. The initiative sees plastic bottles b...

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The Edmond Genealogical Society (EGS) is planning a program for its December meeting on “Researching Italian Records.” Presenting the 6:30 p.m. Dec. 18 program is a member of the Italians of Central Oklahoma and The Order Italian Sons & Daughters of America (ISDA), Doug Garone. The meeting will be at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,...

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Italy on Wednesday launched a pioneering programme to identify people with the highest risk of developing Alzheimer's in the hopes of treating them early, as the country waits for a new wave of more effective drugs. The screening project known as "Interceptor" aims to better determine who will most benefit from these future treatments, which are ex...

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