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Agnès Barthélémy and Manuel Bibes are awarded the prestigious EPS Europhysics Prize

… a contribution that, in the opinion of the selection committee, represents scientific excellence. Congratulations … award winners! Prof Agnès Barthélémy and Dr Manuel Bibes from the joint Physics research unit (Université … award winners! Prof Agnès Barthélémy and Dr Manuel Bibes from the joint Physics research unit (Université …

Published on: Wed 01/06/2022 - 06:57

The Barbeau forest research station is awarded a European prize

… Oak and Hornbeam. Using high-tech equipment deployed from the forest floor to the canopy, the station records a … Oak and Hornbeam. Using high-tech equipment deployed from the forest floor to the canopy, the station records a …

Published on: Fri 11/04/2025 - 09:36

Isabelle Schwartz: Understanding immune responses across species

… originally trained as a vet and became fascinated by the comparative physiology and pathology of species. At the … efficacy Isabelle Schwartz, together with Marc Dalod from the Immunology Centre at Marseille-Luminy, decided to … lung transplant specialist in humans, was hoping to benefit from the researcher’s and her team’s expertise on dendritic …

Published on: Thu 22/07/2021 - 08:00

Yves Gaudin: Understanding and modifying viral factories

… entry mechanism. While the cell is infected, viruses cause compartments called ‘viral factories’ to be created, which … has received a great deal of support and funding, including from the CNRS’ programme de prématuration (prematurity … than 1,300 researchers and covers a broad field of research from basic research to translational research and clinical …

Published on: Thu 19/05/2022 - 16:17

Circulating DNA offers hope for lung cancer

… difficult to diagnose and monitoring its progress is complicated as it requires regular use of medical imaging. … With this new device, health workers would benefit from a better, faster and more accurate test compared to … ten years or so, Benjamin Besse has been collecting plasma from thousands of patients before and after treatment and …

Published on: Thu 02/06/2022 - 10:50

David Néron: model reduction for faster simulations

… After studying for the 2-year preparatory course for the competitive exams in science, David Néron thought he was … refers to a set of techniques which allow common factors from different simulations to be extracted, thereby allowing … is made much easier. “These are methods which can be viewed from a purely mathematical point of view, but which in …

Published on: Thu 30/06/2022 - 09:34

Spintronics appeals to artificial intelligence

… of artificial intelligence, artificial neural networks are computer systems capable of solving complex problems. How … what they knew before. This makes them very different from the human brain, which assimilates information … European METASPIN project, which in May 2022, won funding from the European Innovation Council (EIC Pathfinder) for …

Published on: Thu 09/02/2023 - 11:49

DIONYSOS: towards an effective biocontrol solution for mildew

… adopting a more favourable environmental profile to combat fungal diseases that affect crops, such as downy … in the field did not reproduce these initial results. From then on, it was a question of validating the hypotheses … active substance works and where its effectiveness comes from," says Pierre Picot. This is why, in late 2022, …

Published on: Fri 24/03/2023 - 09:19

Blue Bees Therapeutics: boosting immune cells to treat cancer

… boosting immune cells to treat cancer Innovation From the Department for Medicines and Health Technologies … Univ. Paris-Saclay, Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission CEA, National Research Institute for Agriculture, … removes the inhibition of the T cell."   Treatments derived from I-Ther technology fall into this "anti-immune …

Published on: Thu 13/04/2023 - 17:03

Marie Erard: A chemist tackling life head-on

… in chemistry, Marie Erard discovered the field of chemistry coming from and destined for living organisms during an internship … became ICP in 2020). Ten years later, she obtained her Accreditation to Supervise Research (HDR) and became a …

Published on: Tue 19/12/2023 - 11:29

Camille Coron: a passion for applied mathematics

… mathematics and encouraged her to take part in the Kangaroo competition , where she excelled. Following the advice of … This results in a complexity that is studied extensively from a biological perspective, but rarely from a mathematical one." The mathematician is specifically …

Published on: Wed 14/02/2024 - 07:35

Fluorescent sponges to detect radioactive gases

… Organic Frameworks or MOFs.  These are crystalline networks composed of metal atoms linked by organic molecules. MOFs, … gases, the LCIM team, in partnership with Benoît Sabot from the Henri Becquerel National Laboratory (LNHB) of … it to collapse on itself and successfully extracting it from a room's atmosphere. This application, still under …

Published on: Wed 24/01/2024 - 09:43