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Fundamental Research Division
The DRF at the CEA assemble approximately 6,000 scientists since January 2016.
The African exodus of our species, Homo sapiens, has just been pushed back by at least 60,000 years in comparison to what we previously thought. This now places the date at around 177,000 - 194,000 years ago. This international study, which includes the LSCE, is based on the dating of the oldest modern human fossil found outside of Africa (Israel).
A team from the BIG Institute has just demonstrated that uranium is not necessarily toxic to plants.
Continuing the analysis and exploitation of the biggest database compiled on the planktonic ecosystem, the teams from the CEA, CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research), EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) and the French graduate school ENS, among others[1], have just reached a new milestone by analysing the expression of over 100 million genes
Hydrosilanes are essential chemical compounds for the silicon chemical industry. A team from the Iramis has shown that they could be advantageously replaced by silyl formates, which are potentially regenerable at will from formic acid, a substance that can be synthesized by recycling CO2.
The hypothesis of a smallpox re-emergence cannot be ruled out. Researchers from the IBS are working on its cousin, vaccinia.
The Trace industrial chair aims to develop better monitoring methodologies of greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide and methane) by satellite and with the help of new sensors deployed close to methane-emitting sites.
A team from the IBS has shown how some antibiotics become insensitive to the principal mechanisms of bacterial resistance.
Researchers from the Institut François-Jacob are pursuing the development of their gene therapy to treat hereditary blood diseases. Their objective: to let a greater number of individuals benefit from it.
An in-depth study of microalgae with a siliceous cell wall (i.e. diatoms) emphasizes that their role in carbon sequestration in the ocean depths has been underestimated and may decline in the coming decades. This prognosis could be affected by the evolution of these species.
The announcement on October 16, 2017 of the detection of gravitational waves emitted by the collision of two neutron stars is historic for theoretical physicists. The astronomical observations associated with this event demonstrate that gravitational waves move at the speed of light. This observation disqualifies many of the models of “new” physics!
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CEA is a French government-funded technological research organisation in four main areas: low-carbon energies, defense and security, information technologies and health technologies. A prominent player in the European Research Area, it is involved in setting up collaborative projects with many partners around the world.