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Virginie van Wassenhove is awarded an ERC Synergy Grant

… Virginie van Wassenhove is awarded an ERC Synergy Grant Virginie van Wassenhove is awarded … grants in 2024. The Chronology project, which brings together four researchers, including Virginie van Wassenhove, … cells to the entire brain. Each species will be observed during temporal navigation and estimation tasks of varying …

Published on: Wed 06/11/2024 - 08:00

Plant growth under the microscope

… Plant growth under the microscope Plant growth under the microscope … of the wall, like a balloon inflating with air. These stretched cell walls subsequently become re-shaped and their … nanofilaments. “Under the influence of a chemical signal produced by the cell, an enzyme in the cell wall splits the …

Published on: Thu 31/03/2022 - 17:29

Patricia Garnier: Unlocking the super purifying powers of soils

… (AgroParisTech/Inra) and a soil science specialist. She develops mathematical models to better understand the ability of these layers to dissipate … climate change. Patricia Garnier was an engineer and a graduate of the Higher School of Geology of Nancy when she …

Published on: Sat 07/12/2019 - 19:19

CESAER – Best Idea – A promising first selection phase

… CESAER – Best Idea – A promising first selection phase CESAER – Best Idea – … In September 2020, CESAER launched the Best Idea competition, which aims at fostering innovative projects in … a little more about his experience in the application procedure: “By participating in this competition, I was able to …

Published on: Thu 06/05/2021 - 08:52

Bubbles, defects and precipitates: materials in extreme conditions

… Bubbles, defects and precipitates: materials in extreme conditions … an accumulation of light gases (helium and hydrogen), produced in non-negligible quantities by the fusion between deuterium and tritium. These elements have an impact …

Published on: Wed 25/01/2023 - 11:34

Making mental illness visible – a challenge for MRI

… for which researchers Paul Lauterbur (from America) and Peter Mansfield (from the UK) were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2003, is based on the … placed in a magnetic field generated by powerful superconducting magnets. Radio frequency pulses are then used to …

Published on: Fri 28/01/2022 - 14:52

A nanodrug for effective treatment of paradoxical inflammation - a promising arm in the fight against Covid-19?

… to bacterial infections. Since the recent SARS-CoV-2 epidemic is also characterized by a paradoxical inflammatory … molecules that encourage inflammation in some cases and reduce it in others. In addition to inflammation, highly … and so on.”   Enveloping active ingredients to target cells more effectively In 2017, Patrick Couvreur and his …

Published on: Wed 03/06/2020 - 08:44

Cancer, HIV and triple therapy: a complex relationship

… a complex relationship Researchers at the Laboratory for metabolic and systemic aspects of oncogenesis for new … Therapy (HAART). The results of the synthesis provide new information about the impact of the therapy on … 10 - 20% of deaths of HIV-positive people are still due to cancer. Given this serious threat to public health, …

Published on: Mon 22/06/2020 - 09:10

In search of antimatter

… numerous science-fiction writers and fuelled their wildest literary fantasies: fuel for spaceships for some, a … drawn up by Albert Einstein, into quantum physics. Introducing the notion of space-time, the link between energy and the mass of an object, and the speed of …

Published on: Thu 11/04/2024 - 15:56

Showers burst from sources - L'Edition 13 (June 2020)

… energy from its origins to its arrival on Earth. In order to better understand it, researchers are following the traces … The world’s most powerful particle accelerators produce proton beams of “just” a few TeV (10 12 eV) at most. As …

Published on: Fri 31/07/2020 - 13:40

A new boom in additive manufacturing

… manufacturing and factories of the future. This includes process optimisation, part control and the development … only really took off in the mid-2000s with the gradual removal of patents on its processes and the marketing of the first 3D printers. To begin with, these were …

Published on: Thu 27/10/2022 - 11:04

Understanding the heterogeneity of autism forms

… Understanding the heterogeneity of autism forms Understanding … scientists combined the ten best algorithm models and produced a good predictor of ASD, with an AUC of 0.80, a good … The predictor used as a screening test detects 88% of individuals with ASD, but at the cost of misclassifying 50% of …

Published on: Fri 03/03/2023 - 15:01