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Fundamental Research Division
The DRF at the CEA assemble approximately 6,000 scientists since January 2016.
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.
A team from the IBS (CEA-CNRS-Université Joseph Fourrier) has published in Nature the full three-dimensional structure of a serotonin receptor. This is a first for mammals.
An international collaboration led by INRA and the CEA-IG (Genoscope) has published the first reference sequence of a chromosome from wheat. This is a decisive step towards sequencing its entire genome.
An international consortium involving teams from the CEA-IG has developed a new method for analyzing metagenomes. This method has been successfully applied to intestinal microflora, revealing hundreds of previously unknown species.
The rapid industrial success of carbon nanotubes raises questions about their impact on health and the environment. Researchers from the CEA and CNRS have developed a method to monitor these particles in the body, followed by observing their distribution after lung contamination. This study was published in ACS Nano.
By exploiting a large database of psychometric data and brain imaging, the Neurofunctional Imaging Group from Bordeaux has shown that the location of the brain’s language areas is independent of being right- or left-handed ... except for a very small fraction of left-handed people. This work was published in PLoS One on June 30, 2014.
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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.