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The last two years in scientific news
Researchers from IDMIT describe the course of immune & inflammatory markers and the vaginal microbiome during the menstrual cycle.
With massively parallel sequencing of DNA collected from the surfaces of the earth's oceans and seas (Tara Oceans expeditions) and more than ten years of analysis, an international team piloted by researchers from Genoscope (CEA-Jacob) and the CNRS has solved one of environmental biology's greatest puzzles.
A team of researchers from IRCM (CEA-Jacob) and I2BC have shed light on the role of ComFC, a bacterial protein involved in natural transformation, itself a driving mechanism for the propagation of antibiotic resistance genes and virulence factors.
In an article published in Cell Reports, an international team including researchers from MIRCen showed that a cerebral network associated with highly elaborate cognitive capacities in humans differs from the comparable network in non-human primates.
A preclinical multimodal imaging study conducted by the Neurodegenerative Diseases Laboratory (LMN/MIRCen) and published in Human Molecular Genetics has shed light on cerebral alterations in Huntington's disease.
Working from 35,000 worldwide water and plankton samples collected by the Tara Oceans Expeditions and sequenced by Genoscope,, an international team of researchers has identified 5,500 new RNA virus species and met the challenge of their phylogenetic classification. The team's work was published in Science.
In a new study published in Brain, researchers MIRCen used mouse models of Huntington's disease to show that stimulating reactive astrocyte formation favors the elimination of mutant huntingtin protein, reducing both the quantity and size of the aggregates.
The Epigenetic and Environment Laboratory (CNRGH) was part of a study that characterized associations between placental DNA methylation and the concentrations of 11 phthalate-derived metabolites in urine samples from pregnant women. The samples used for the analysis, published in Environment International, were obtained from EDEN, a cohort of French mothers and children.
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