Medicine and Research

A DANGEROUS FALLACY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH "What do you do with a vaccine if you are healthy? Your immune system is strong and will protect you" This is one of the arguments often put forward by anti-vaccinationists. The reasoning starts from the fact that a healthy person has a strong immune system that will protect him, e una volta guarito avrà sviluppato un'immunità naturale all'infezione. Quest'ultima renderebbe quindi inutile il vaccino. It might seem like a sensible discussion but in reality it is not, and presents several fallacies. Let's take a step back and try to understand why. Per prima cosa vediamo [...]

Exosomes are a recently discovered mode of cellular communication. Initially mistaken for scraps, could prove to be a promising tool for diagnosis and therapy. We are used to thinking of our body as a single machine, forgetting that it is instead made up of many parts. Each organ is made up of different tissues and many cells. However, the number of bacteria in our body exceeds that of our cells. And this makes us doubt that we might not be made of dreams but of bacteria. All these parts must communicate with each other to work. Just like in a car. [...]