Next week I should have attended the Food Integrity 2020 congress in London. Because of the COVID-19 outbreak I will not fly to the UK. I live in Italy and since the 10th of March, all Italy is considered “red zone”. Almost all flights from and to Italy has been cancelled. But how did thatContinue reading “Traveling in the time of COVID-19”
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Stress and white hair
It is been said that stress turns hair white. Zang and collaborators published on Nature the research, which gives us the confirmation of this popular saying. Long story short: stress triggers the fight-or-flight response, which has an impact on the cells producing hair pigments. Going into details of the experiment, researchers stressed mice by injectingContinue reading “Stress and white hair”
Scientists are funny
The typical image of a scientist, is that of a man, with white hair, glasses, in a lab coat, maybe a bit strange and definitely booooooring. Last month a paper regarding graphene was published by Wang and collaborators. It went viral in the science community because of its title “Will any crap we put intoContinue reading “Scientists are funny”
