he initial step of the vesicular trafficking is vesicle budding from the Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) that is fundamental for the structural and functional maintenance of post ER compartments and for the secretion of extracellular factors like hormones or extracellular matrix components.

Il 29 Marzo 2014 a Lugano, presso l'auditorium dell’Università Italo-Svizzera (USI) si terrà un Workshop, organizzato dalla fondazione IBSA e Antonio Musarò (membro del direttivo ABCD), su cellule staminali dal titolo: "Stem cell therapy: hype or hope?"

Translational research is a scientific research which helps make findings from basic science useful for practical applications that enhance human health and wellbeing.

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a common (one affected newborn out of 2500), autosomic recessive, genetic disease in the white population and is due to mutations in the ABCC7 gene.

ABCD congratulates James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof, Winners of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells.