Science is almost exclusively concerned with the “accessible unknown”; that is, what can be investigated using the current knowledge as a starting point. In other words, scientists only address — and talk about — questions they have a chance to answer using available tools and knowledge. If a subject is too far from what we know at a given time, we assign it to the realm of the distant future, science fiction, or metaphysics.

In the intestine and, particularly, in enterocytes, nutrients are modulators of various cellular functions and may be involved in tissue immune response and inflammation (1). Dietary proteins are often incompletely digested by the intestinal proteases and residual peptides can have biological effects (2).

A reportage about the event held in Pesaro in 2014, with the joint support of ABCD and SIBBM.

An interview with the Professor of Developmental Genetics and Genomics at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and at the University of Geneva (Switzerland)

An interview with the Professor of Cellular Pathophysiology and Clinical Biochemistry of the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)