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Fundamental Research Division
The DRF at the CEA assemble approximately 6,000 scientists since January 2016.
A team from INAC has successfully carried out the conversion of a spin current into a charge current at the interface between iron and germanium, thanks to spin–orbit coupling. According to the reciprocity principle, the reverse process is also possible. This result implies that the generation and detection of a spin current are a priori feasible with current CMOS technology. It constitutes a first step toward a spin transistor relying entirely on spin–orbit coupling.
In a phase 2 clinical trial, scientists showed the efficiency of targeting cancer stem cells—an approach imagined and developed at the CEA François-Jacob Institute for the treatment of leukemia, chronic myeloid leukemia in particular.
According to agronomic and climatological models, maize and soybean yields decline as soon as the temperature exceeds 30°C. Wheat appears to be more resistant. Increased irrigation can help to avoid such loss.
The mystery that is the origin of flowering plants has been partially solved. A team from CEA-BIG and their partners have shed light on a question that much intrigued Darwin: the appearance of a structure as complex as the flower over the course of evolution.
A team from IRFU, a member of the ALICE collaboration at CERN, has coordinated the analysis of J/ψ particles produced during lead-lead collisions at the LHC (CERN). Their results provide a solid indication of the existence of a quark–gluon plasma.
According to estimates based on experimental observations and computer simulations, wheat yields in China are expected to be altered by upcoming global warming.
CEA-Joliot Institute is part of ZIKAlliance, a project of the European Union focused on studying infection by the Zika virus and preparing for possible epidemics.
A collaboration involving IRFU has obtained the first image of the gas velocity inside a galaxy cluster, thanks to a new millimeter camera embedded in a radio telescope from the Institute for Radio Astronomy in the Millimeter range (IRAM) in Spain. These observations open new perspectives on the collisions between and within galaxy clusters.
Nobody could have guessed that magneto-tactic bacteria could be used as MRI contrast agents, yet scientists from CEA-Institute Joliot and CEA-BIAM did it.
Researchers from IRFU say that our universe is homogeneous, according to a 3D mapping of the universe based on the quasar sample from SDSS III (the Sloan Digital Sky Survey).
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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.