20 July 2022

Francesca Ieva on Lombardy Region Taskforce

Our Associate Head of the Health Data Science Centre has been appointed to a new task force created by Lombardy Region which aims to reduce waiting lists and verify the proper management in the provision of health services to citizens. The task force includes members from Lombardy Region Welfare General Management, ATS, ASST, Lombardy Health […]

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18 July 2022

HT at the 23rd International Exhibition of Triennale Milano

The works on display at the 23rd International Exhibition, “Unknown Unknowns. An Introduction to Mysteries”, also include two microscopy images created by Human Technopole researchers. The unknown, the mysterious, what we “know we don’t know”. This is the theme at the heart of the exhibition, curated by Ersilia Vaudo, astrophysicist and Chief Diversity Officer of […]

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14 July 2022

Mapping spontaneous DNA double-strand breaks in neural cells

DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) can cause mutations and genomic rearrangements resulting in genome instability thus contributing to the onset of genetic disorders and cancer. Magda Bienko and Nicola Crosetto provide tools and resources to investigate spontaneous DSBs that arise in an in vitro model of neurodevelopmental disorder pathogenesis. DNA damage can be either induced by […]

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13 July 2022

Human Technopole announces new President and Supervisory Board

Milan, 13 July 2022 – The Presidency of the Council of Ministers by means of a Decree signed on 7 July 2022 has appointed Professor Gianmario Verona, rector of Bocconi University in Milan, as the new President of the Supervisory Board of the Human Technopole Foundation. In its new composition, the Foundation’s Supervisory Board includes […]

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13 July 2022

Can computers help estimate the quality of cancer cell lines?

In a study funded by Open Targets, Lucia Trastulla and Francesco Iorio discuss the limitations of immortal cancer cell lines (CCLs) to investigate cancer biology in vitro and review the latest computational methods to evaluate the suitability of each CCL as experimental model on a case-by-case basis. Immortal CCLs are widely adopted models to study […]

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