ABCD turns thirty and we celebrated the anniversary with an international meeting that was held in Ravenna, Italy, at the Palazzo dei Congressi, from 12 to 14 September 2013.

The expressions “biological replicate” and “technical replicate” are ubiquitous in biology, but they are surprisingly recent. At first glance, the adjectives suggest that one can understand these notions in terms of a distinction between biological variation and technological variations. This however becomes problematic as soon as biological systems are used as instruments.

The mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT) refers to an alteration of the permeability of the inner mitochondrial membrane and was characterized for the first time in 1979.

E' con estremo piacere - e malcelato orgoglio - che desideriamo informarvi che proprio ieri ABCD ha raggiunto il traguardo dei 500 iscritti all'Associazione.

Since the beginning of the 1990s, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) has become an important technique in cognitive neuroscience. An MRI scanner can acquire low-definition pictures of the human brain in only 2s, and this is repeatedly done for the whole duration of a certain cognitive task, e.g. recognizing the emotions expressed by human faces that are shown on a screen.