Celiac disease (CD) is an autoimmune enteropathy triggered by the ingestion of gluten-containing grains in genetically susceptible individuals. The consumption of gluten in CD causes self-perpetuating damage to the intestinal mucosal and its functionality becomes severely impaired. For CD patients, the gluten free diet is the only acceptable treatment to ... Read More

Fascination of Plants Day The goal of the "Fascination of Plants Day" is to get as many people as possible around the world fascinated by plants and enthused about the importance of plant science for agriculture and sustainable production of nutritious food, as well as for horticulture, forestry and the production ... Read More

The Meeting entitled “Natural products in pest management: Innovative approaches for increasing their use“ was held from 25 to 29 September 2018. The Meeting was supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Co-operative Research Programme: Biological Resource Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems (CRP) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). This ... Read More

The Workshop entitled ‘Technological solutions for shipping perishable fruit & vegetable commodities from Apulia Region’ will held on February 23, 2018 at IFAC SpA, Acquaviva delle Fonti, Italy. This meeting is part of the dissemination activities of the CONTINNOVA Project, funded by Apulia Region "Aiuti a sostegno dei Cluster Tecnologici Regionali”. The ... Read More

CNR-ISPA was awarded the EFSA grant on food allergens under the call GP/EFSA/AFSCO/2017/03 “Detection and quantification of allergens in foods and minimum eliciting doses in food allergic individuals” The project partnership formed from five organizations distributed in four different member states (UK, IT, BE and FR), brings together the group led ... Read More

The Meeting entitled “Natural products in pest management: Innovative approaches for increasing their use“ will held from 25 to 29 September 2018 at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center on the Como Lake, Italy. The Meeting, proposed and organized by Dr. Maurizio Vurro (ISPA-CNR), Dr. Stephen Duke (USDA) and Prof. Antonio Evidente ... Read More

CNR-ISPAparticipates in European research project on the use of jellyfish blooms as solutions for producing new products. Global climate change and the human impact on marine ecosystems result in decreasing the number of fish in the ocean. Since overfishing decreases the numbers of jellyfish competitors, their blooms are in rise. They ... Read More