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Weakening vinyl polymers for better degradation

… Weakening vinyl polymers for better degradation Weakening vinyl polymers for better degradation Research Julien Nicolas’ team at the … “To make them degradable, degradable monomers named cyclic ketene acetals (CKAs) are inserted during the synthesis as …

Published on: Thu 30/06/2022 - 15:56

AI for Covid-19: personalised and predictive care for patients

… varies greatly. Being able to predict a patient’s risk of deterioration at diagnosis, i.e. whether they will require respiratory assistance or need to be … Hospital – AP-HP, INRIA and the start-up Owkin have come together to tackle this urgent issue. The new AI tool produces …

Published on: Mon 01/02/2021 - 16:25

Concrete research for improved understanding of cement

… Concrete research for improved understanding of cement Concrete research for improved understanding of cement Research … for the research being carried out by a team from the Theoretical Physics and Statistical Models Laboratory (LPTMS – …

Published on: Tue 31/08/2021 - 13:51

Data science or results science: are we shifting away from statistics?

… block is the centre of debate regarding the relationship between these two disciplines. What link, what differences and what complementarities are there between them? These are the questions that an international … present in our daily lives, be it in health, social networks, industry, logistics, video games, or others. No …

Published on: Wed 12/01/2022 - 16:55

The closure of schools, Covid-19 and children’s mental health

… in children at the time of the school closures and detailed the various socio-economic factors associated with … on the same sphere, but its approach would be different. Together, we formulated a questionnaire which was broadened to … as many disciplines as possible,” sums up Alexandra Rouquette, a researcher from CESP, a public health physician and …

Published on: Wed 19/01/2022 - 14:29

Sepsis: a long-term battle, new issues and goals

… complications be avoided? These are questions that the Prometheus University Hospital Institute (IHU), which comprises … parasitic or fungal infection with an acute and sudden onset. The disease is also defined by its long-term … thirty years, Djillali Annane is now head of the Prometheus University Hospital Institute (IHU), whose aim is to …

Published on: Fri 14/02/2025 - 15:20

Nose, olfaction and fragrance: giving a sense to smell

… renewed public interest during the Covid-19 pandemic. And yet, scientists from a wide range of fields have been … capable, by creating multiple combinations, of smelling between ten thousand and one trillion (one billion billion) … transmit the signal to the brain. The brain then interprets it as a scent.   The first experimental structure of a …

Published on: Wed 26/02/2025 - 15:28

Claire Gaudichon: Stable isotopes to track dietary proteins in the body

… Claire Gaudichon: Stable isotopes to track dietary proteins in the body Claire Gaudichon: Stable isotopes to track dietary proteins in the body Researcher portraits Research   … She is also the director of the Physiologie de la nutrition et du comportement alimentaire (Nutritional Physiology and …

Published on: Fri 16/04/2021 - 14:20

SPARK - reducing CO2 emissions and decentralising hydrogen production

… PhD. A former PhD student at the “Énergétique moléculaire et macroscopique, combustion” (Molecular and macroscopic energetics, combustion) laboratory (EM2C - Université Paris-Saclay, CentraleSupélec, CNRS) , he … and macroscopic energetics, combustion) laboratory (EM2C - Université Paris-Saclay, CentraleSupélec, CNRS) , he …

Published on: Wed 09/06/2021 - 08:45

Pascal Corbel: A Business-Minded Academic

… professor at Université Paris-Saclay, a researcher in the Network, Innovation, Territories, Globalization (RITM - … de Caen and Manchester Polytechnic (now Manchester Metropolitan University), Pascal Corbel was still unsure of what direction to take in his career after completing his Master’s degree. “I could see myself as a …

Published on: Thu 28/04/2022 - 16:06

Subcutaneous chemotherapy, a solution to ease cancer treatment?

… the same period. Worldwide, more than 18 million cases are detected annually, resulting in nearly 10 million deaths. … proliferation of cells whose DNA, the carrier of genetic information, has certain mutations. This uncontrolled … surgical procedure to remove the tumour, is the preferred method. When such a procedure is no longer feasible, for …

Published on: Thu 17/11/2022 - 11:02

Extreme Blazars: when particle acceleration reaches new heights

… recently conducted the first inventory of the most energetic of them all: extreme blazars. To gain a better understanding of these prodigious particle … some of the matter concentrated in the surrounding accretion disc, while another part escapes as an ultra-bright …

Published on: Thu 06/02/2020 - 16:08