The opening ceremony of the 232nd Academic Year of the National Academy of Sciences called of the XL will take place on May 15th, 2014 at the Academy Library in Villa Torlonia (Scuderie Vecchie di Villa Torlonia, Via L. Spallanzani 1/A, Rome). Programme in 
The first Systems Biology and Systems Medicine School will take place in Como at the Lake Como School of Advanced Studies created under the auspices of the University of Milan, University of Milano – Bicocca, University of Pavia and University of Insubria, and with the patronage of the Italian National Academy of Sciences and the…
DetailsRome, November 18th, 2013 – 9.30 am– 1.15 pm. Welcome address: prof Emilia Chiancone, President, National Academy of Sciences called of the XL; Coordinator: prof. Giorgio Bignami, President Association Forum Droghe, former research director at the National Institute of Health. Speakers: prof. Alessandro Ballio, Sapienza University of Roma and One of the XL, prof. Massimo Castagnola, Catholic University of…
DetailsThe Second Annual Assembly will be held in the Library of the National Academy of Sciences on November 6th, 2013. PROGRAMME Welcome address by the President of the National Academy of Sciences called of the XL Prof. Emilia Chiancone Induction conference by Academy member Prof. Luciano Mayol, University of Naples ‘Federico II’ ‘Duets, Trios, Quartets…
DetailsA training course for primary and secondary school teachers promoted by the National Association of the Life Sciences Teachers (ANISN) and the Italian National Academy of Sciences called Academy of the XL.The course is held by Academy member Giuseppe Macino, professor of Cell Biology at Sapienza University of Rome. The course is open to teachers from…
DetailsThe Italian National Academy of Sciences and the Sacred Convent of Assisi organize for the 9th consecutive year a Meeting on the environment and its safeguard. The Meeting ‘Environment and the Energy Program: supply, consumption and reuse” will be held on September 19th, 2013 at 9.00 a.m. in the Salone Papale of the Sacred Convent in Assisi.…
DetailsThe volume will be presented on May 6th, 2013 in the framework of the V Meeting on the ‘History of the Italian National Institute of Health’. The volume is due to a joint work of the Academy of the XL and the National Institute of Health, that aims at recollecting the studies by Giovanni Battista Marini…
DetailsThe opening ceremony of the 231st Academic Year of the National Academy of Sciences called of the XL will take place on April 18, 2013 at the Academy Library, Scuderie Vecchie di Villa Torlonia, Via L. Spallanzani 1/A, Roma.
Rome, January 30th, 2013 at 11.00 am – The National Academy of Sciences called Academy of the XL will remember Rita Levi-Montalcini on January 30th, 2013, one month after her passing away.Academy members Pietro Calissano and Antonino Cattaneo, pupils of the Nobel Prize laureate and lifetime Senator of the Italian Republic, Gianni Letta, Romano Prodi, Enrico…
DetailsA recent article published in Food and Chemical Toxicology by the research group led by Gilles-Eric Séralini at the University of Caen [1] has had a wide echo in the media. According to this article, the GM NK603 maize, modified genetically so as to be resistant to the glyphosate ROUNDUP herbicide, has tumorigenic and toxic effects on rats…
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