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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

Quantum ambitions: positioning France at the cutting edge of technology

… Université Paris-Saclay researchers are involved.  The President of Université Paris-Saclay, Sylvie Retailleau announced in the lead-up to the conference … qubits as much as possible, i.e.: their stability and the duration during which it is possible to carry out …

Published on: Fri 27/05/2022 - 10:04

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

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

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

Dark energy, the mystery challenging cosmology

… researchers from Université Paris-Saclay, will attempt to determine this over the coming years. Research The universe … a few hundred thousand years later, the first atoms. Gradually, this matter expanded and organised, giving rise to … and quasars - very luminous objects - in order to build a detailed three-dimensional map of the universe. With this …

Published on: Wed 14/05/2025 - 08:37

Nuclear fusion: steps towards energy production

… Nuclear fusion: steps towards energy production Nuclear fusion: steps towards energy production … in  L'Édition N.20 )   As stars do, several experimental devices are able to initiate nuclear fusion reactions, which … the world’s energy needs are and the calls for energy sobriety underline how difficult it is to reduce these needs …

Published on: Fri 20/01/2023 - 11:33

ERC Consolidator Grants 2023 : two laureates linked to Université Paris-Saclay

… careers where they may still be consolidating their own independent research teams to pursue their most promising … Saclay are linked to Université Paris-Saclay: Basile Gallet for his project, P-BOT Basile Gallet, is a researcher at … alone to quantify the magnetic properties of exoplanets due to an incomplete theoretical understanding of magnetic …

Published on: Thu 23/11/2023 - 14:22

Alzheimer’s disease: mysteries and new leads

… in  L'Édition  N.21 . Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative pathology that affects almost one million … with a very high prevalence and incidence rate,” says Yvette Akwa, researcher at the Diseases and Hormones of the … (60% of French patients are women, according to Inserm) due to the drop in oestrogen during menopause. Heredity, …

Published on: Thu 13/07/2023 - 16:57

Biological control: how the landscape context affects the dynamics of pests and their natural enemies

… laboratories at Université Paris-Saclay have used a modelling approach to study the interplay between landscape structure and the dynamics of pest control … questions, numerical modelling experiments have been conducted by Antoine Le Gal and his colleagues at the Ecology, …

Published on: Wed 29/04/2020 - 14:53