October 15, 2012

While studying Parkinson's disease, an international research group led by SISSA scientists in Trieste made a discovery which can improve industrial protein synthesis for therapeutic use. They managed to understand the use of RNA when it is not involved in the protein-coding process: the protein synthesis activity of coding genes can be enhanced, for example, by the activity of the non-coding one called "antisense".

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October 10, 2012

The group led by Giovanni Bussi at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste has just received considerable financing to study RNA, a molecule with several functions, important in the biology of the cell. In the project, the method of computer simulations will be used.

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Maria Chiara Carrozza

October 10, 2012

SISSA - Main Lecture Hall

The latest Paralympic Games have brought it to the spotlight: today technological prostheses, used to replace missing limbs, harmoniously integrate with the human body and promote a new conception of beauty. They are increasingly functional, sometimes even more than "normal" limbs. New frontiers of science on prosthetic device was the topic of the lecture held by Maria Chiara Carrozza (Director of Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies) on Wednesday 10th October, at SISSA in Trieste.

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October 9, 2012 

Until now it has been a mystery to scientists: how does it work? What is the need of the movement of euglenids, small organisms swimming in any pond? Nobody has ever described it in detail and nobody has ever understood its dynamics. But today, through a mathematical model, scientists at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) and at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya have suggested a plausible description of this movement, made by the sliding of the membrane around the outer surface of euglenids.

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