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Fundamental Research Division
The DRF at the CEA assemble approximately 6,000 scientists since January 2016.
A technology transfer was made between the CEA and the private company ANOVA-PLUS, concerning the detection of the toxic Alexandrium minutum by a simple type of strip test. ANOVA-PLUS, is in charge of producing 5,000 strips in preparation for their commercialization.
The genome of a bdelloid rotifer – a microscopic animal whose surprising capacity for survival and reproduction is the subject of much debate – has been sequenced and analyzed by an international consortium jointly directed by the CEA-Genoscope and the University of Namur.
Researchers at IGS, the genomic and structural information laboratory, working in association with the large-scale biology laboratory have just discovered two giant viruses which, in terms of number of genes, are comparable to certain eukaryotes, microorganisms with nucleated cells.
Friday July 12th, an agreement was signed to create an ‘International Associated Laboratory’ (laboratoire international associé, or ‘LIA’) involving the French Institut de Biologie Structurale in Grenoble (IBS – CNRS / CEA / UJF) and the Brazilian LNBio and CNPEM from Campinas.
For the first time, a research team from the CEA , Collège de France, CNRS and Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble has developed an efficient process for in vitro activation of an enzyme, hydrogenase, which is found in microorganisms that use hydrogen as a source of energy.
A research team led by Denis Le Bihan (CEA) at the NeuroSpin neuroimaging center has just demonstrated that water diffusion slows down in activated regions of the brain.
Thanks to a high-field MRI scanner, researchers from the CEA-I2BM followed the dynamics of ion exchange in neurons, which conduct the propagation of nerve impulses.
A team from Neurospin (CEA-I2BM) and the Cognitive and Integrative Neuroscience Institute of Aquitaine (CNRS/Université de Bordeaux) has visualized the activation of individual neurons by MRI. This result is published in PNAS.
The CEA-iMETI is developing tools and protocols to facilitate the cross-referencing of experimental results obtained in animal tissues with results from human tissues.
Researchers from the CEA-iBiTec-S have developed rapid detection tests against the plague-causing agent Yersinia pestis, to detect the bacillus in the environment. Because plague has not yet been eradicated.
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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.