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Cutting-edge stem cell research

… (Article from l'Edition n.15 - february 2021)   A great deal of research is devoted to exploring the regenerative and therapeutic potential of embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells and their suitability for new …

Published on: Thu 25/03/2021 - 14:31

NO to popular misconceptions in chemistry! (1/3)

… a large community of chemists with its researchers and students, has chosen to focus on chemistry. This exciting … "NO to popular misconceptions in chemistry!": a series of deliberately quirky illustrations that we hope will spark a … reaction (temperature, pressure and quantities), and the products of the reaction. For example, to make caramel, table …

Published on: Fri 28/06/2019 - 16:00

NO to popular misconceptions in chemistry! (2/3)

… a large community of chemists with its researchers and students, has chosen to focus on chemistry. This exciting … "NO to popular misconceptions in chemistry!": a series of deliberately quirky illustrations that we hope will spark a … of essential medicines for such conditions. As yews’ production output of Taxol is relatively low, chemists’ …

Published on: Fri 12/07/2019 - 16:00

Jean-Yves Le Gall elected Chair of Université Paris-Saclay’s Strategic Advisory Board

… Strategic Advisory Board Jean-Yves Le Gall, who was President of France’s national space agency, the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) until April 2021, was unanimously … on its strategic direction and monitor its implementation. During the Board’s first seminar which was held on 18 and 19 …

Published on: Mon 21/06/2021 - 14:26

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics: two of the laureates began their work in attosecond science at CEA Saclay

… at CEA Saclay The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to the physicists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and … Research The three laureates are recognised for having “demonstrated a way to create extremely short pulses of light … member of the Governing Board at the Institut d’Optique Graduate School at Université Paris-Saclay. She also works …

Published on: Tue 03/10/2023 - 16:17

Reaction to France’s new Immigration bill

… have joined forces to protest against the measures included in France’s new immigration bill. On Tuesday 19 December, before the bill was officially voted by the French … bill “As presidents of French universities and higher education and research institutions, we have read carefully …

Published on: Wed 20/12/2023 - 13:52

Probiotics to prevent respiratory infections in the elderly

… Probiotics to prevent respiratory infections in the elderly Probiotics to prevent respiratory infections in the elderly Research The group of microorganisms which live in the … from the lungs to the intestines. The opposite is also true during reflux from the stomach and oesophagus. Finally, …

Published on: Tue 23/02/2021 - 09:56

Basile Gallet: Surfing fluid dynamics

… portraits Basile Gallet is a researcher at the Service de physique de l'état condensé (Condensed Matter Physics Department) … in the atmosphere, etc. These are then modelled and reproduced in the laboratory in order to better understand them. …

Published on: Fri 26/02/2021 - 12:38

Patrick Couvreur: Nanomedicine Pioneer

… start-ups. The researcher is also a member of scientific academies in several European countries and the United States. He became president of the French National Academy of Pharmacy in 2020. … Pathology, then headed by Nobel Medicine 1974, Christian de Duve, inspired him to make miniature doses to penetrate …

Published on: Thu 22/10/2020 - 17:08

NO to popular misconceptions in chemistry! (3/3)

… a large community of chemists with its researchers and students, has chosen to focus on chemistry. This exciting … "NO to popular misconceptions in chemistry!": a series of deliberately quirky illustrations that we hope will spark a … "natural" and "chemistry", since it is the study and reproduction of the arrangement of the constituents of matter: …

Published on: Mon 29/07/2019 - 16:00

Emmanuelle Deleporte: The photovoltaic revolution

… Emmanuelle Deleporte: The photovoltaic revolution Emmanuelle Deleporte: The photovoltaic revolution Researcher portraits … perovskites - molecular crystals with remarkable semiconducting and optical properties. These materials made a …

Published on: Fri 21/05/2021 - 15:13

Jean-Jacques Greffet: Controlling light at the nanoscale

… (LCF – Univ. Paris-Saclay, the Institute of Optics Graduate School, CNRS) and Director at the Institute for the … coming together around twenty years ago. These included opticians who, in the 1980s, challenged the law in … than a wavelength cannot be resolved; physicists who succeeded in making material (semiconductors) capable of emitting, …

Published on: Mon 11/04/2022 - 15:05