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… his start-up as part of the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste on 29 September, launched by the United Nations (UN) … on our plates in its natural state, although it is sometimes used in the form of extracts or concentrates. "This … his start-up as part of the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste on 29 September, launched by …
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… published this portrait of Gilles Dowek, who passed away on Monday, 21 July 2025. This portrait will continue to pay tribute to the scientist he was. Gilles Dowek was a director of research at Inria, a … his keen interest in computer science. During this time, he created a Mastermind game programme, an early …
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… of the Earth's formation from an early age. As a child, she was fascinated by a lecture given by Maurice and Katia … "My first contact with the theory of plate tectonics, which was still very new at the time,"she recalls. Three years later, this theory was …
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… of bacteria on petri dishes, the DNTech start-up wants to democratise new, less polluting and more effective … a project called BacterioDec in 2020. Their objective was to design a rapid, sensitive and affordable detection … and culturing it for 18 hours. It is during this period of time, which is known as the pre-enrichment stage, that …
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… Research Aurélien Marabelle's interest in medicine was sparked by a chance internship with Dr Éric Bérard in a … "Having grown up in quite a privileged environment, here I was confronted with a very intense world, particularly … called CAR-T Cells in Houston, USA. "It was in 2005, at a time when there was very little research into cancer …
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… articles on aerospace, which he learnt by heart. Later, he was inspired by a 2nd year Master's internship at the … about automatic learning and artificial intelligence. So, I was working on what we now call machine learning," recalls … Chevallier, who defended his thesis in 1998. "At the time, atmospheric modellers observed my work cautiously. …
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… directly measurable, but are distorted by noise. The aim was to develop robust statistical methods for analysing … at Université Paris-Descartes in 2007. During this time, she expanded her research into survival analysis, an … with deconvolution and models with errors. This approach was instrumental, for example, when working with data from …
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… international regulation of artificial intelligence. She was recently named Chevalière de l'Ordre des Arts et des … intellectual property and AI In 2007, Alexandra Bensamoun was recruited as a lecturer at Université Paris-Sud and … funded by PhD projects and contracts." At the same time, she was involved in developing the DATAIA Institute , …
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… melatoninergic system in mammary carcinogenesis. "The idea was to study mammary tumours, which are often linked to … melatonin, a hormone best known for regulating the sleep/wake cycle, but which also has anti-oestrogenic effects. … incidence rates between the sexes, particularly around the time of menopause. This leads us to believe that hormonal …
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… However, he quickly realised that the courses he was most passionate about were those in fundamental physics … VEGA-1 and VEGA-2 spacecraft during the Halley flyby, I was one of the first to observe a cometary nucleus, its … (ISO); the whole room applauded because, for the first time, we could see inside the clouds where stars are born. …
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… her interest in mathematics. From secondary school onwards, she took part in many national competitions and discovered the joy of problem-solving. However, it wasn't until her undergraduate studies at the University of … as little more than a collection of tricks; but at that time, I discovered an unsuspected conceptual depth." She …
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… A complex formulation Formulating these two molecules took time because one is hydrophobic and the other hydrophilic. … candidate, the start-up went through four stages. The first was to identify the right molecules, which took two years. … they had to identify the correct receptor and, once this was done, the precise target or the right site to target on …
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