Cultural and creative production (CCP) can create, renovate, and shape places' socio‐economic environments. Recent contributions suggest that culture can activate a set of cognitive and productive mechanisms that form the basis of human capital (HC) dynamics. Bridging these two streams of research, the present paper investigates possible causal relationships between CCP and HC at the regional level. Empirically, we used measures of employment in the cultural and creative sectors as proxies for CCP and applied generalized method of moments (GMM) panel estimations to yearly data from 283 European NUTS 2 regions from 2014 to 2020. The findings suggest that CCP positively affects regions' average levels of HC even controlling for several economic and demographic factors.

The possibility that the investigation of aborted material may identify aetiologies not easily detectable from even a careful clinical investigation, suggested a study of the T-cell receptors (TCRs) of decidual-infiltrating T-lymphocytes in recurrent spontaneous miscarriage (RSM). From 33 cases of RSM (>3 previous consecutive miscarriages, range 3-5, mean 3.7), PCR products were analysed by 15% acrylamide gel electrophoresis and visualised under UV illumination after ethidium bromide staining. A broad band obtained suggests the presence of a monoclonal T-lymphocyte proliferation. A PCR not showing bands means that the tissue does not contain reactive T cells. A total of 11 samples (33.3%) revealed the presence of receptor TCRgamma with the presence of a specific band. T-cell receptors in RSM were identified in one-third of cases. These data underline the importance of a maternal immune host response to the embryo and the need to study the immune mechanisms with the hope of modulating therapeutic treatment of recurrent abortion.