London. Fighting chronic inflammation and protecting the immune system with the molecules contained in fruits and vegetables. The perspective opened by the study devoted to the possibility of using microRNAs from plants, a class of natural compounds found in fruits and vegetables to guard against the risk of diseases like cancer, diabetes, arthritis, Alzheimer’s disease and neurological, autoimmune, pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases. The study funded by the Edmund Mach Foundation of San Michele and conducted in collaboration with researchers at the University of Florence has been published in the scientific journal Scientific Reports. (9colonne)