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Fundamental Research Division
The DRF at the CEA assemble approximately 6,000 scientists since January 2016.
The collaboration between American laboratories and a team from the CEA-IRCM has shown in vitro that inhibitors of the enzyme ATR specifically kill the cells of certain types of cancer.
Notorious in its abnormal form, the normal prion protein is present in all mammals, although its role is unknown. A team from the CEA-IRCM has just shed some light on this.
Bisphenol A, now prohibited in food containers, is sometimes replaced by bisphenol S and bisphenol F. A team from the CEA-IRCM has now demonstrated that the latter are also potentially dangerous.
A team from the IBS has used solid-state NMR spectroscopy to obtain the structure of a key enzyme in the formation of the bacterial cell wall, revealing how it interacts with its substrate.
Stanislas Dehaene, professor at the Collège de France and a researcher at the CEA-I2BM, has won the “Lire” prize for the best book of the year in the science category, for “Le code de la conscience” (The Code of Consciousness).
Researchers from the CEA-Genoscope are characterizing the metabolism of polysaccharides in Clostridium phytofermentans, a bacterium capable of transforming plant debris into biofuel.
A team from the CEA-IBEB has developed a rapid immunological test of the Ebola virus. Validated at the Laboratoire Jean Mérieux (Inserm), this test will be industrialized by VEDALAB.
An international team involving the CEA-I2BM has just demonstrated that astrocytes induce the neuronal metabolism abnormalities that are characteristic of Huntington’s disease.
An international consortium coordinated by the CEA-IG (Genoscope) has just published the reference sequence of the coffee plant genome. This plant is of paramount economic importance.
An international consortium led by INRA and the CEA (IG-Genoscope) has just published the reference sequence of the canola genome. This is a choice tool for varietal improvement.
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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.