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Fundamental Research Division
The DRF at the CEA assemble approximately 6,000 scientists since January 2016.
A consortium composed of CEA, the European Vaccine Initiative, Institut Pasteur and Themis Bioscience is launching the Zikavax project, with the goal of developing a vaccine against infection by the Zika virus.
A team of researchers from IRFU has developed a very effective image reconstruction technique for radio astronomy. It will benefit the future international network Square Kilometer Array (SKA) in particular, whose construction will start in 2018, and is also expected to find applications in medical imaging and Earth observation.
An international team led by the LSCE has published a complete assessment of methane sources and sinks. After a period of stabilization in the early 2000s, since 2007 a new increase in methane concentrations has been observed by international measurement networks, with a sharp acceleration since 2014.
The WEST tokamak produced its first plasma on December 14, 2016 and is now preparing to test key components for ITER.
MRI acquisition times increase with resolution. To limit them, mathematicians from CEA-I2BM constantly need to find new creative approaches to boost their algorithms.
In a study at the interface of physics and biology, a team from CEA-BIG has characterized the swimming behavior of bacteria in the vicinity of cells. Their work contributes to an improved understanding of the infectious potential of bacteria, and possibly to the development of a new anti-infective strategy.
An international consortium has set out to find the oldest ice on Earth, in Antarctica, using a revolutionary probe developed by French teams, with early participation by LSCE: Subglacior. The probe makes it possible to date ice in real time without coring.
Two French research teams have recently shown in a rodent model that overexpression of an enzyme capable of eliminating excess cholesterol in the brain can act in a beneficial way on the tau component of the disease to completely correct it.
Key elements of the cytoskeleton, microtubules exhibit fascinating and unexpected mechanical properties, such as adapting to stresses as well as self-repair. Their repair dynamics could inspire materials engineering.
A giant virus from a completely new genus was discovered in a Siberian permafrost sample dating back 30,000 years. Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metagenomics draw a detailed portrait of this new virus, known as Mollivirus sibericum.
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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.