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Nel 2005, Drew Weissman e Katalin Karikó scoprirono come modificare molecole di mRNA per prevenire infiammazioni: una scoperta che avrebbe permesso di sviluppare i vaccini contro il Covid-19. La storia della scoperta che ha valso a entrambi il Nobel per la Medicina nel 2023, e che oggi guida la sperimentazione per vaccini antitumorali. Accompagna la conferenza il live drawing di Jacopo Sacquegno. Interviene: Drew Weissman, Premio Nobel per la Medicina 2023 Modera: Elena Carnevali, Sindaca di Bergamo Live drawing: Jacopo Sacquegno, visual thinker e biologo

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Vice President Kamala Harris made her closing argument Tuesday in a major speech at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., scene of the Trump rally in 2021 that led to the Capitol riot. Harris described Trump as a tyrant who would shred the rule of law if given another four years in office. The Republican campaign, meanwhile, is still dealing with fallout from Sunday’s rally at Madison Square Garden in New York, where speakers made a series of racist and dehumanizing remarks about Puerto Ricans, Black people, Palestinians and more. For more on the state of the race with ... continua

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Among bonobos, our closest evolutionary relatives, the social order protects females from sexual aggression by males. The result: a playful, cooperative coexistence and peaceful. Diane L. Rosenfeld, expert on gender violence, analyzes laws and practices of human society that oppress women, and draws a lesson from bonobo society important: patriarchy is not inevitable. Speaker: Diane L. Rosenfeld, Harvard University Moderator: Graziella Romeo, Bocconi University Introduced by: Attilio Brambilla, Alfaparf Group Concludes: Rachele Paolucci, AISM

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In the final week ahead of the presidential election, Republican Donald Trump’s campaign is facing widespread backlash after his rally Sunday at Madison Square Garden, where conservative comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico “an island of garbage” and others leaned into racist and anti-immigrant rhetoric. We speak to journalist Jean Guerrero, who has published books on Trump’s white nationalist agenda and her own Latina and Puerto Rican identity. Trump is “seeking to restrict the notion of what it means to be American,” says Guerrero. Trump and his ... continua

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Nature is the greatest expert in bioengineering: so why not let it in in the laboratory? Frances Hamilton Arnold, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry in 2018, has revolutionized the world of bioengineering and defined a new method to develop enzymes thanks to evolution, with applications from drugs to renewable fuels. A non-conformist scientist, always attentive to the environment. Speaker: Frances Hamilton Arnold, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry 2018 Moderator: Mario Salvi, BergamoScienza Association

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Israel’s three-week siege of northern Gaza has killed at least 1,000 Palestinians. Most of the dead are women and children. On Saturday, Israeli forces withdrew from Kamal Adwan Hospital just one day after storming it, with health officials saying that soldiers detained dozens of male medical staffers and some of the patients. This comes as the Israeli government has banned six medical NGOs from entering Gaza despite the dire humanitarian crisis stemming from repeated displacements of the population, widespread disease, injuries from Israeli attacks, hunger and ... continua

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Israeli soldiers have just conducted what Gaza’s Civil Defense is calling a “major massacre” in Jabaliya, with more than 150 people killed or injured and dozens of buildings destroyed. It is the latest atrocity amid the military’s weekslong siege of northern Gaza. “It’s getting worse and worse,” says Dr. Mohammed Salha in a call from the Jabaliya refugee camp, where he is acting director of Al-Awda Hospital.

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Israel is escalating its bombardment of Lebanon, leveling numerous buildings, including the offices of Lebanese news station Al Mayadeen. The Israeli military has also attacked the ancient city of Tyre, a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site, and killed three Lebanese soldiers in a strike in southern Lebanon, all while continuing to defy international calls for a ceasefire. “What we’re seeing is a complete degeneration into a war that has no rules, that respects no international conventions. There’s one side in this war that has complete impunity,” says ... continua

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As human rights groups continue to call out war crimes committed by the Israeli military, we speak to the only U.S. diplomat to publicly resign from the Biden administration over its policy on Israel. We first spoke to Hala Rharrit when she resigned from the State Department in April, citing the illegal and deceptive nature of U.S. policy in the Middle East. “We continue to willfully violate laws so that we surge U.S. military assistance to Israel,” she says after more than a year of Israel’s war on Gaza. Rharrit says she found the Biden administration unmovable ... continua

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Israeli forces have killed at least 115 Palestinians and injured nearly 500 over the past two days, according to Palestinian health officials. This comes as Israel continues to carry out a brutal siege on northern Gaza, which has been described as a “surrender or starve” policy of ethnic cleansing. As the military demands that tens of thousands of Palestinians leave the north, senior government ministers are pushing for new Jewish settlements in Gaza. Meanwhile, images and video have emerged from northern Gaza showing Israeli forces separating Palestinian men from ... continua

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