Four 'extraordinary' Renaissance paintings stolen from Italian museum
Four Renaissance paintings of "extraordinary value" have been stolen from a museum in Sicily, Italy's culture minister has said.
Alessandro Giuli confirmed that three panels of the Polyptych of San Gregorio and a double-sided panel of the Madonna with Child and Christ in Pietà, all attributed to Antonello da Messina, were taken Regional Interdisciplinary Museum of Messina on Saturday night.
Police are now probing how the thieves were able to enter the museum without triggering its alarms and who may have been responsible.
The incident is the
UK researchers are growing miniature human tissue from NHS patient cells to improve drug testing
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Forward-looking: A £20 million ($27 million) research hub in Cambridge, UK, will create miniature human tissues from NHS patient cells to help scientists test medicines in ways that may better reflect disease. The project will build a library of organoids – small clusters of cells that reproduce important features of organs and tissues. The standardized models will be available to university researchers and drug companies working to identify




