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Fundamental Research Division
The DRF at the CEA assemble approximately 6,000 scientists since January 2016.
According to an international study involving researchers from the LSCE (CEA-CNRS-UVSQ), a significant change in ocean currents in the North Pacific would have favored the first human migration from Asia to North America, at the end of the last ice age.
EBRAINS (European Brain ReseArch INfrastructureS) is a european research infrastructure designed by the scientific community which, based on a set of state-of-the-art digital platforms, aims to answer the analysis and processing needs of large brain data sets. CEA carries for France EBRAINS inscription on the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures roadmap, which was submitted in early September 2020.
New work by the CEA-Joliot on the venom of the green mamba confirms the therapeutic potential of the toxin and paves the way for its use as a diagnostic tool.
The construction of the photosynthetic apparatus in the cells of leaves of flowering plants involves subtle mechanisms. The CEA-Irig is providing some explanations.
Researchers at the CEA-Irig are proposing new magnetic structures that allow the stabilization of nanoscale “skyrmions” without the application of any external magnetic field. This represents another step towards new applications for storing and processing information.
Researchers from the Biam (CEA) have discovered an essential role for a novel giant protein involved in the degradation of “lipid droplets”, which are the primary site of carbon and energy storage in certain microalgae.
Cells move, deform and divide. CEA-Irig researchers are gaining a better and better understanding of how. To do this, they have "cut" the contractile cables very precisely with a laser.
Theorists from the CEA-Irfu and the Direction des Applications Militaires of the CEA have developed an artificial intelligence capable of predicting the properties of more than 1,800 atomic nuclei from an algorithm trained on only 210 nuclei. The accuracy obtained is comparable to that of the state of the art, with a reduced computation time ranging from a factor of ten to a factor of a thousand.
Microbial rhodopsins are among the proteins responsible for capturing solar energy on the Earth, especially in the seas. Researchers from CEA-Irig (IBS) have characterized the structure and function of several unique rescently disoived rhodopsins.
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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.