Author: Jessica Berthereau

While studying the causes of death in large whales during her PhD, Yara Bernaldo de Quirós became intrigued by the fact that these marine mammals do not suffer from atherosclerosis or other age-related arterial diseases. A diver herself, she was well aware of how diving affects arterial function. Each dive triggers rapid changes in blood […]

Meditation and mindfulness are not just a pastime for Maria Goreti Sales, a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. She is convinced they hold the key to understanding how and why the body gets sick. Sales coordinates the Coimbra University’s BioMark Sensor Research group that develops advanced […]

Michela Onali, an Italian language teacher now living in Sardinia, never expected to find herself at the forefront of the European fight against rare diseases. But the diagnosis of a rare genetic condition turned her world upside down. “It took six years before I was diagnosed with GNE myopathy, a rare adult-onset muscle disease,” said […]