A 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. (more…)
The 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. (more…)
Professor Carlo Rubbia, Nobel Prize Laureate and Academy member since 1984, was appointed Senator for Life by the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano on August 30th, 2013.
Marc Van Montagu, foreign Academy member since 1998, shared the prestigious World Food Prize 2013 with Mary-Dell Chilton and Robert T. Fraley for his achievements in the development and applications of modern biotechnology to agriculture. (more…)
Pierdomenico Perata, professor of Plant Physiology, is known internationally for his research on the molecular mechanisms of hypoxia in plants; these studies led to the recent discovery of the oxygen…
The 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 Bettòlo – president of both Institutions – on curare. (more…)
Prof. Ugo Amaldi was awarded the International Prize Vivisalute 2013 for scientific research. The ceremony will be held on April 18th, 2013 at 6.00 p.m. in Milan at Bocconi University.…
The 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…
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. (more…)
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 just as the herbicide itself. (more…)
