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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 … the cell and the extracellular wall. Then, signalling peptides, which are very commonly used as a mode of communication …

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 … used in agriculture, such as fertilizers or pesticides. The challenge is to conserve soil fertility and …

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

Bubbles, defects and precipitates: materials in extreme conditions

… Bubbles, defects and precipitates: materials in extreme conditions … produced in non-negligible quantities by the fusion between deuterium and tritium. These elements have an impact … ions pass through the material and create displacement cascades: they collide with the nuclei of the atoms they meet and …

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

The mystery of learning in babies

… Where do human cognitive abilities come from? Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz’s team at the Cognitive Neuroimaging … to all these mysteries. Even though the brain still retains many secrets, advances in brain imaging are gradually … symbolises not being allowed to do something.” Symbolic codes permit abstract and compressed representations of …

Published on: Thu 07/10/2021 - 14:38

If sexual harassment were told to us

… at the hands of Hollywood producer, Harvey Weinstein. The MeToo movement, which was started in 2007 by the African … American social worker and activist Tarana Burke in order to expose sexual and gender-based violence against … the term is recent in usage, is it possible to use it to describe facts and events which took place in earlier …

Published on: Thu 09/06/2022 - 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 … and so on. ”   Enveloping active ingredients to target cells more effectively In 2017, Patrick Couvreur and his … inflammations. Researchers injected lipopolysaccharides into laboratory mice to test a new nanodrug. These …

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

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 … them, much in the same way as a flick of a wrist would destabilise a spinning top without making it fall. The …

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

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 … cancer in HIV-infected patients. Cancer and HIV - a widespread association There are two main types of cancers: …

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 … 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

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 … photons, nuclear spins, electron spins, etc. However, despite numerous announcements concerning the …

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

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 … questions. Originating from meanders through the interstellar medium, these rays, invisible to the human eye, bombard …

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 … 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