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The Huge Machines of Physics: The Bet of the Multidisciplinary Research Teams in Regenerative Medicine

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In the last decades the biology and medicine made great progresses thanks, on one side to the expoitation of basic discoveries of physical phenomena, and on the other side on the development of physical techniques applied to the medical diagnostic area, like for instance the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. This chapter presents the Huge Machines of Physics, starting with large accelerators for sub-nuclear physics, like the Large Hadron Collider, and continuing with synchrotrons and free-electron lasers. It will be shown that the last two types of facilities can provide very useful information both for biology and medicine. In particular it will be emphasized the great help provided by the X-ray synchrotron radiation to the regenerative medicine, with examples of tracking of stem cells in investigations of pathologies of cardiological and neurological nature.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,

Than are dreamt in your philosophy.

– Hamlet Act 1, William Shakespeare

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It is a pleasure to thank Prof. Federico Quaini and Dr. Mario Stefanon for their precious scientific contributions and to Mr. Mario Pergolini for his outstanding technical support.

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Rustichelli, F. (2018). The Huge Machines of Physics: The Bet of the Multidisciplinary Research Teams in Regenerative Medicine. In: Giuliani, A., Cedola, A. (eds) Advanced High-Resolution Tomography in Regenerative Medicine. Fundamental Biomedical Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00368-5_1

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