Ricerc@Sapienza

As rates of global warming increase rapidly, identifying species at risk of decline dueto climate impacts and the factors affecting this risk have become key challenges inecology and conservation biology. Here, we present a framework for assessing threecomponents of climate-related risk for species: vulnerability, exposure and hazard.We used the relationship between the observed response of species to climatechange and a set of intrinsic traits (e.g. weaning age) and extrinsic factors (e.g.

Extremely low frequency magnetic fields (ELF-MF) could be an alternative neuroprotective approach for ischemic stroke because preclinical studies have demonstrated their effects on the mechanisms underlying ischemic damage. The purpose of this open-label, one arm, dose-escalation, exploratory study is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of ELF-MF in patients with acute ischemic stroke. Within 48 hours from the stroke onset, patients started ELF-MF treatment, daily for 5 consecutive days. Clinical follow-up lasted 12 months.

Final results are now available from two large animalstudies that investigated whether long-term exposure to radiofre-quency (RF) electromagnetic fields (EMFs) associated with mobile(or cell) phones or base stations is carcinogenic; these studies halefrom the US National Toxicology Program (NTP) and the RamazziniInstitute in Italy, respectively. In both cases, the authors concludedthat they had demonstrated that RF EMFs are carcinogenic in malerats but not in female rats or mice (NTP only).