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The last two years in scientific news
A research team from MIRCen has shown that the relative size of the neocortex is constant across all primates, whereas the volume of white matter varies considerably according to the type of primate.
Since its creation CEA has been involved in biology and health research and has become a recognised player in technological innovations and their integration. It can thus legitimately position itself as a major player in the field.
A Genoscope team has reconstructed compete plant chromosomes by combining DNA long-read sequencing and optical mapping technologies.
Researchers from MIRCen have shown that inhibiting reactive astrocytes is beneficial for certain characteristics of Alzheimer's disease. Their results could lead to novel therapies that act upon astrocytes to improve neuron function.
Rad52 has garnered great attention lately as a promising target in the battle against certain types of breast cancer. A team from IRCM, in partnership with researchers from the Frédéric-Joliot and Gustave Roussy Institutes, has shed new light on this protein.
Researchers at Genoscope's Genomics Metabolics Mixed Research Unit recently elucidated the degradation pathway of trigonelline, a molecule naturally present in plants that ensures resistance to water stress (osmoprotective role). The study, published in PNAS, revealed previously unknown enzymes and metabolites.
Researchers discovered a novel interaction between two proteins from the measles virus. This ultra-weak interaction, involving only four amino acids situated in a very flexible and dynamic protein region, is essential for measles virus replication. This newly discovered interaction constitutes a new target to treat measles infection, but also infection by other viruses from the same family, that comprises highly dangerous human pathogens.
By sequencing more than 246 genomes of African rice, researchers from the François Jacob Institute of Biology and their partners have shown that the species was first domesticated 3,000 years ago in Mali.
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