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The last two years in scientific news
Researchers at the IRCM and their partner at the University of Arizona compared three imaging tools used to visualize actinides present in contaminated biological tissues. Their analysis provides information on the performance and limitations of each of these autoradiographic techniques. The digital technique is the most recent, and offers certain advantages such as real-time imaging.
An international consortium, including a team from the CEA/Genoscope, carried out the complete sequencing of the genome of a tomato variety using MinION, a portable sequencer developed by Oxford Nanopore.
A new animal model expresses the two biological characteristics of Alzheimer's disease, enabling new possibilities for treatment assessment and simplified diagnosis.
A new study involving the François Jacob Institute of Biology shows that cows too can be a pertinent model for the study of human genetic abnormalities.
Researchers at the CEA's François Jacob Institute of Biology and their partners show that exposure to low-dose irradiation causes a loss of function in hematopoietic stem cells. Which is bad. And good.
Can a living organism be obliged to take something other than its regular route for the synthesis of the molecules it needs to live and multiply? A team from the François Jacob Institute of Biology did just that, getting bacteria to assimilate CO2 in a new way.
The classification of genes in international databases needs reconsidering. How can a gene and the function of its corresponding protein be aligned exactly without testing? Researchers at the CEA's François Jacob Institute of Biology have found a way.
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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.