A 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…
DetailsThe Second Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Sciences will be held in Rome, on November 8th, 2012 at the Academy Library in Villa Torlonia. On this occasion, the new Foreign Members Catherine Mével and Hans V. Westerhoff will be given formally the Academy diploma. PROGRAMME Opening address by the President of the National Academy…
DetailsThe volume ‘Italian Scientists and the Unification of Italy’, published by the National Academy of Sciences called of the XL, collects the proceedings of the homonymous meeting organized by the Academy in November 2011 in the framework of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy. The meeting was promoted in collaboration with…
DetailsThe workshop, to be held in Venice at the Istituto Veneto, is organized by Academy member Bernard Schrefler, together with Professors Paolo Decuzzi (TMHRI/UMG), Alberto Amadori (University of Padua) and Wing Kam Liu (Northwestern University). The workshop is sponsored by ASME, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the framework of the NanoEngineering for Medicine…
DetailsThe National Academy of Sciences called of the XL ( Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze detta dei XL) and the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa announce a competition for a Prize entitled to prof. Gian Tommaso Scarascia Mugnozza, former President of the National Academy of Sciences and of the Conference of Rectors of Italian Universities. The…
DetailsThe Sacro Convento in Assisi and the National Academy of Sciences called Academy of the XL are organizing since many years international meetings to address the complex and delicate relationships between care and protection of Creation and technological progress. The participation in the meetings of scholars and decision making bodies provides a unique opportunity to…
DetailsThe seminar ‘Knowing and valorizing Science. Forming and Informing’ will take place on Saturday September 8, 2012 at the Academy Library, Scuderie Vecchie di Villa Torlonia (Via L. Spallanzani 1/A), Roma. The results of the project ‘Biodiversity, an essential resource of nature. Knowledge and valorization through the school’, realized by the Academy in collaboration with the…
DetailsThe meeting, promoted by the Department of Basic and Applied Sciences for Engineering (Dipartimento di Scienze di Base ed Applicate per l’Ingegneria, SBAI) of the University of Rome “Sapienza” under the patronage of the Academy, is scheduled for June 25-27, 2012 in Rome at the Academy Library in Villa Torlonia, Via L. Spallanzani 1/A.…
DetailsThe National Academy of Sciences called Academy of the XL participates in the distribution of the so-called ‘5 per mille’ quota. To support the Academy with the ‘5 per mille’ quota, it suffices to sign the box dedicated to the ‘associazioni e fondazioni riconosciute che operano nei settori di cui all’art. 10, c.1, lett a), D.…
DetailsThe opening ceremony of the 230th Academic year has taken place on May 10th, 2012 at the Library in Villa Torlonia, Rome. Carlo Doglioni, Professor of Structural Geology at Sapienza University of Rome; Pierdomenico Perata, Professor of Plant Physiology at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa; Luciano Mayol Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University Federico II…
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