An interesting project about diabetic retinopathy has been recently awarded by the Italian Minister of Health in the #NextGenerationUE program framework. The project "Early Retinal Neurodegeneration as Risk Factor, Biomarker and Pharmacological Target of Diabetic Retinopathy" address a serious complication of diabetes that could lead to blindness. The team is led by the San Raffaele Hospital and is [...]
The second conference of the Society for Acquired Resilience took place from the 27th to 29th of September in Sydney. The Society for Acquired Resilience is a scientific organization of researchers interested in a variety of therapeutic applications able to ameliorate patients quality of life mainly by increasing tissue resilience and to critically assess their validity from a clinical, anatomical, physiological, cellular and molecular [...]
Anyone dealing with age-related macular degeneration (#AMD) knows that there are two forms of maculopathy: "dry" and "wet" (exudative). But what is the correlation between the two? Do you start with the dry and get to the wet? Will we inevitably get eyes injection or turn blind? A little clarity on the issue is due. [...]
The "Novel food products for the promotion of Mediterranean Lifestyle and healthy diet" (PromedLife) project, funded by the European Horizon "Prima" program, has officially started. The project aims to promote lifestyles in line with the principles of the Mediterranean diet, encouraging healthy eating habits and reducing the environmental and economic impact of production and food [...]
Recently an article on the possible beneficial effects of saffron on sleep was published on JCSM (Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine). The experimental protocol was a double-blind placebo controlled procedure. The aim of the research was to verify the hypothesis that a treatment with saffron was able to improve the quality of sleep by [...]
At the end of 2020, Enea's Biotechnology laboratory at Casaccia completed its part of the research as part of a project financed by the Ministry of Economic Development's Sustainable Growth Fund, called IDROZAFF. This project proposes the construction of a high-tech demonstration plant for the intensive cultivation of saffron in a controlled environment, with LED [...]
This is the important result of a research realised at the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS and Università Cattolica, campus of Rome, published in the prestigious magazine "Nutrients". The study was coordinated by Prof. Benedetto Falsini, associate professor at the Institute of Ophthalmology (Catholic University) and specialist at the Ophthalmology UOC of the A. [...]
As part of the programme of events of the "Settimana Marsicana" in Avezzano (AQ), on 31 July a conference was held on "Saffron, between History and Actuality". Speeches given by many speakers were multi-disciplinary: from botany, to agronomy, to aspects of chemical and nutraceutical nature. Among the speakers, Dr. Maria Maggi, Hortus Novus researcher, [...]
Si svolgerà a Napoli i prossimi 20 e 21 ottobre il VII Congresso della Società Italiana di Oftalmologia Genetica (SIOG), organizzato dalla professoressa Francesca Simonelli, direttore della Clinica Oculistica dell'Universita' degli Studi della Campania L. Vanvitelli. Verranno trattati gli aspetti più innovativi in tema di diagnosi e terapia delle malattie oculari rare, con particolare riferimento alle [...]
European Retina Meeting 2017 was held from 5th to the 7th October in Paris, France. This Meeting brought together the best specialists in vision, especially in retinal research, from all over the world. Our current understanding of the retinal information processing is now making it possible to design rational therapies for a number of diseases impairing [...]
