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Marta Gritti
Marta is an Assistant Editor for the BMC Series. Before joining BMC, in September 2017, Marta was working as a post-doc at the Italian Institute of Technology of Genoa, studying the neuromodulation of synaptic plasticity in the mouse brain. She has a MSc in Molecular Biology and a PhD in Physiology from the University of Milan; she is fascinated by ethology and animal behaviour.
Latest posts by Marta Gritti (see all)
  • Can you learn how to be empathic? A new nursing education intervention says yes - 27th July 2018
  • Where is your fat accumulating? Different fat distribution is linked to different cardiometabolic risk in a sex-dependent manner - 17th July 2018
  • Little world, big problems: unravelling the origin of slave-raiding in ants - 22nd June 2018

Can you learn how to be empathic? A new nursing education intervention says yes

27/07/2018

BMC Series blog

It is not easy to change health risk behaviors, and it can be even more difficult for nurses to provide counselling on such delicate issues. In this pilot study… Read more »

Where is your fat accumulating? Different fat distribution is linked to different cardiometabolic risk in a sex-dependent manner

17/07/2018

On Biology

Differences in body compositions between men and women are unravelled in this recent publication in Biology of Sex Differences. Taking advantage of modern… Read more »

Little world, big problems: unravelling the origin of slave-raiding in ants

22/06/2018

BMC Series blog

In a recent BMC Evolutionary Biology publication, researchers use a phylogenomics analysis to disentangle the relationships of Formica genus ants, making… Read more »

First record of bottlenose dolphins in Canadian Pacific waters

06/06/2018

On Biology

Authors of a recent Marine Biodiveristy Records publication describe a very special and surprising sighting of bottlenose dolphins in British Columbian waters:… Read more »

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