Tomato Extract Fights Stomach Cancer, Ripe for Further Study
A new study shows that whole tomato extracts from two different Southern Italy cultivars inhibit gastric cancer cell growth and malignant features, paving the way for future studies aimed at implementing lifestyle habits not only for prevention, but potentially as a support to conventional therapies.
The big hoax
Measles, mumps and rubella can lead to deadly or serious infection Massive research (at the taxpayers’ [our!] expense) showed, and continues to show, that MMR and autism are unrelated. But the two continue to be incorrectly linked by the media, on the internet, and in…
Carl Spitzerg – Hilarious! Hilarious?
By Prof. Francesco Carelli Some 130 years after the death of the “most popular German painter”, the Leopold Museum is presenting the first exhibition on the artist Carl Spitzweg (1808–1885), whose oeuvre is commonly seen as closely allied to the Biedermeier period and the definitions…
Gut bacteria may turn common nutrient into clot-enhancing compound
Gut bacteria can produce a clot-enhancing compound when people eat a nutrient found in a variety of foods including meat, eggs and milk, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation.Excessive blood clotting limits or blocks blood flow which can cause…
Using drugs to weaken traumatic memories
A potential new approach to treat posttraumatic stress disorder: After taking the antibiotic doxycycline, study participants remembered an unpleasant event considerably less, as experiments conducted by a team of researchers from the University Psychiatric Hospital and the University of Zurich reveal.
Astonishing Monsters – Apocalypse according to Baj
Francesco Carelli – University Milan, Rome The Italian painter Enrico Baj, born in Milan in 1924, graduated in law while attending Brera Academy, founder of the Nuclear Movement was involved in Italian and international avant-garde movements, and from 1950 exhibited his works regularly in Paris. In…
Ligabue, genius and madness
Francesco Carelli, University Milan , Rome Antonio Ligabue is a self-taught artist. His pictures are childlike and uninhibited, based on instinct. Considered one of the most interesting artists of the 20th century, his genius is founded on solitude and emargination. Liguabue suffered from mental illness…
Dali’ – Jewish experience and Freud
Francesco Carelli – University Milan, Rome Which wire ties the surreal world of Salvador Dalì, the Jewish religion and the psychoanalysis of Freud? An interweaving of two graphic series concurrently to the exhibition Dalì’s Experience in Bologna are exposed at Jewish Museum.
Hopper: love for clear light
By Francesco Carelli – University Milan, Rome Some call him a storyteller, while others consider him the only artist who could capture the very instant – crystallized in time – of a scene, or the essence of a person. After all, it was Edward Hopper himself…
Sunken cities: Egypt’s lost worlds – An extraordinary example of integration of cultures
Prof. Francesco Carelli , University Milan, Rome The British Museum has run (May – November 2016) a major exhibition on two lost Egyptian cities, the Egyptian harbours and their recent rediscovery by archaeologists beneath the Mediterranean Sea bed.