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To carry out their activities, Research Teams of the Frédéric Joliot Institute for Life Sciences have developed high-profile technological platforms in many areas : biomedical imaging, structural biology, metabolomics, High-Throughput screening, level 3 microbiological safety laboratory...
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A NeuroSpin Research Team (UNICOG) has shown, as a result of cerebral electrical activity, that the baby orientates himself to people's faces around him since his birth. He learns quickly to recognize them, but he does so with his right hemisphere in the first months of life. These works are published in the journal Nature Human Behavior.
A Research Team from I2BC@Saclay, in collaboration with researchers from Biam and Naturex, clarified the mode of action of antioxidant compounds from rosemary. They studied the operating mode of carnosic acid and its main oxidation derivative, Carnosol, well-known antioxidants that can account for up to 10% of the dry weight of rosemary leaves.
NeuroSpin's Researchers (UNICOG) discovered how the brain integrates and filters information flows. By combining high-resolution temporal brain imaging (MEG) techniques and machine learning algorithms, neurobiologists have been able to determine the sequence of neuronal operations that allows the brain to specifically select relevant information. These observations are described in Nature Communications.
Mapping the human "connectome" requires identifying the anatomical connections made by the white fibers. A NeuroSpin researcher (GIN / Bordeaux) participated in a large study involving 20 research teams, with the aim of providing the best possible reconstruction of anatomical connectivity of the human brain with tractography procedures. The results of this study, published in Nature Communications, show the limitations of tractography and should favor the development of new algorithms.
A SPI/LERI Research Team has recently developed new test strips for the detection of some multi-resistant bacteria. A hospitalization project for these high-speed screening tests will be rolled out in 2018 with funding from EIT Health.
In a recent review published in Science, Stanislas Dehaene (director of NeuroSpin, Inserm-CEA-University Paris-Saclay) and his colleagues suggest that the word "consciousness" includes two different types of information processing calculations in the brain: C1, which integrates the information and makes it available, and C2, which is the reflexive process. Do machines have a conscience?
The Frédéric Joliot Institute (and in particular the SPI / LERI), a Research Team from the Bicêtre Hospital APHP— Paris-Sud University and NG Biotech have developed new rapid tests to detect certain forms of antimicrobial resistance in hospitals.
The first colloquium of the Department of Life Sciences of Paris-Saclay University - a department of which the Frédéric Joliot Institute is a member - was held on October 25th and 26th, 2017, in Orsay, at the Paris-Sud University campus (Faculty of Sciences, Cartan amphitheater).
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