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Fundamental Research Division
The DRF at the CEA assemble approximately 6,000 scientists since January 2016.
Researchers from the IBS are working on crystallography techniques in order to see proteins in motion.
The phage is a formidable killer of bacteria. Researchers from the IBS have shown how its tail, which recognizes its target, and its capsid, which contains what it needs to destroy the bacterium, communicate.
An animal model expresses the two biological characteristics of Alzheimer's disease, providing new opportunities for simpler drug testing and diagnosis.
The LHC’s Atlas collaboration at Cern has observed a rare process: the production of Higgs bosons in association with a top quark and top antiquark pair. This work, supervised by an Irfu researcher, opens up perspectives on the study of the Higgs mechanism that gives mass to particles.
Three teams from the Inac have manufactured and characterized highly nitrogen-doped graphene nanosheets and tested them as supercapacitor electrodes. The performances obtained compare favorably with state of the art carbon electrodes. This promising technology has yet to be optimized for on-chip applications.
Researchers from the Institut Frédéric-Joliot have shown that during the first months of life, babies orientate themselves towards faces and quickly learn to recognize them, but only using their right hemispheres.
Researchers from Iramis studied the irradiation resistance of several different cements, so as to incorporate nuclear waste from the CEA center of Marcoule into them. The result: these cements are resistant to the doses planned for this storage.
Researchers from the Institut Frédéric-Joliot have discovered how the brain integrates and filters information, by combining temporal high-resolution brain imaging techniques and machine learning algorithms.
Physicists from the Compass collaboration (Common Muon and Proton Apparatus for Structure and Spectroscopy) at Cern, which includes a team from the Irfu, have provided experimental confirmation of a paradoxical prediction in the strong interaction theory, which notably binds quarks and gluons inside the proton.
A team from the Institut François-Jacob participated in establishing the complete genome of a tomato using the MinION, demonstrating the new potential of nanopore technology.
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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.