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Maxillofacial Surgery: University of Bologna and Sant'Orsola Hospital Collaborate on an Exclusive AI Project

Awarded at the 27th Congress of the European Association for Cranio-Maxillo-Facial Surgery (EACMFS), the system automatically provides customised reconstructions of facial skeletons deformed by diseases that can vary in nature deformed by diseases of varying nature, including oncological, malformative, and traumatic conditions. Surgeons can work on this model to prepare for the actual reconstruction in the operating room

Endometriosis: Portable Devices to Transform Diagnosis and Monitoring

The SENSOPAD project, coordinated by the National Technical University of Athens, aims to revolutionise the management of this chronic condition affecting millions of women worldwide, significantly improving their quality of life. The University of Bologna is among the project participants

Climate Change: Reducing Risk for Floods

Experts from the RETURN Foundation—a PNRR (National Recovery and Resilience Plan) partnership established to address natural and anthropogenic risks—outline the research and action priorities necessary to make these events less destructive and deadly. Shared practices and regulations are required, including periodic safety assessments of land and infrastructure

The Climate Crisis Threatens Human Habitation in River Deltas

This alarming trend is already evident in the Mississippi Delta, and troubling signs are emerging in Italy’s Po Delta. Prolonged droughts, extreme weather events, and rising sea levels are causing devastating impacts on agriculture and biodiversity, threatening to make these lands uninhabitable for humans

The Increase in Drought is Driving Internal Migrations Worldwide

An international research group has developed a global database on migration phenomena between different regions within the same country in 72 countries between 1960 and 2016. The rise in temperatures is forcing more and more people to leave their homes, particularly in rural areas heavily dependent on agriculture

A genomic database of all species inhabiting Europe

This database is coming to life thanks to the European Reference Genome Atlas, in which the University of Bologna is a participant. The pilot project of this initiative involved researchers from 33 countries to sequence and freely make available the genomes of 98 European species. It represents an inclusive and equitable model in biodiversity genomics

Interactions with Animals Improve the Health of Children’s Gut Microbiome

A study conducted by the University of Bologna experimented a ‘biodiversity intervention’: for 15 days, during a summer camp, 10 children living in urban areas interacted with horses for about 10 hours a day in an educational farm. At the end of the time spent in a rural area, the children’s gut microbiota had been enriched with health-promoting bacteria and anti-inflammatory metabolites

Urban Heat Waves: Which Neighbourhoods Are the Most at Risk?

Starting from the case of Madrid, an international group of researchers has developed a method to identify the areas with the highest vulnerability to rising temperatures. The method is based on the distribution of specific population subgroups, such as the elderly, women and people with a low socio-economic status

The oldest genome of Italy is that of an infant who lived 17,000 years ago

He probably had blue eyes, ebony skin and curly, dark hair; the genes also suggest a close kinship between his parents – possibly first-degree cousins. His death, which happened when he was only 16 months old, could have been caused by a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a congenital cardiac disease associated with sudden death