The Digital Era: Challenges for the Modern Mind

The digital media are the new interface between mind and world.They enable us to gain instant access to an infinitely expandable collective memory system.This is an indispensable breakthrough, but has the potential to seriously violate the ancient co-evolutionary pact between brain and culture which has kept the rate of cultural and technological c

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The tumor suppressor 5A2, a synthetic miR-7-5p mimic, targets oncogenic and metabolic pathways, as revealed by transcriptome-wide analysis

As cancer is a multifactorial disease, the multimodal action of microRNAs makes them an attractive tool for novel therapeutic approaches.The tumor suppressive miR-7-5p has been shown to act on many aspects of oncogenesis, including cell proliferation, migration and angiogenesis, by targeting a spectrum of key genes.We developed a synthetic chemical

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