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Fundamental Research Division
The DRF at the CEA assemble approximately 6,000 scientists since January 2016.
The protein LEAFY plays an essential role in the beauty of the plant world, as it governs the formation of flowers. As part of an international collaboration, a joint team including the CEA-IRTSV has managed to trace its history and to elucidate the evolutionary mechanism that gave it the ability to direct floral morphogenesis.
An Anglo-French team (AP-HP, Inserm, CEA/Mircen, UPEC, Oxford Biomedica, Cambridge University) coordinated by Professor Stéphane Palfi (head of the neurosurgery department at the hôpital Henri-Mondor) conducted a gene therapy trial in 15 patients with an advanced form of Parkinson’s disease.
How can new therapeutic strategies for antibiotic-resistant bacteria be found? A team from the IBS is developing a means for investigation through the in vitro fabrication of the Pneumococcus wall. This is a method with which to develop and test new antibiotics.
400 exomes were sequenced by the CEA-IG-CNG through a partnership with the Fondation maladies rares.
Experiments in yeast to understand the causes of mental disability? As amazing as this may sound, researchers from the CEA-IRTSV have used this model to explain the molecular origin of certain defects in the human cortex. These results are published in the journal Nature Genetics.
Brain anatomy plays a major role in cognitive control, a key skill in learning and academic success. This finding is the result of research carried out by the Laboratory for the Psychology of Child Development and Education (CNRS/Université Paris Descartes/Université de Caen Basse-Normandie), in collaboration with the NeuroSpin imaging center (CEA).
CEA Researchers from the CEA-IG propose a novel method to clarify enigmatic functions of proteins. This study was published online November 17th in the journal Nature Chemical Biology.
CEA Biologists at the CEA-IRCM have uncovered a protein involved in a central process of reproduction. In collaboration with the Dresden University of Technology, researchers tracked the protein MEIOB, and demonstrated its crucial role in the genetic exchange of species.
A collaboration between the IBS, the EMBL and the ILL reveals the story of the ribosome, one of the essential components for cell survival. The researchers write the chemical scenario of the folding and assembly of this actor who has a complex structure.
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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.