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The last two years in scientific news
In a partnership with IDMIT (CEA-Jacob) and Institut Pasteur, the Epigenetic and Environment Laboratory (LEE; CNRGH/CEA-Jacob) carried out two studies to evaluate DNA methylation in non-human primate models of immunodeficiency virus infections.
Glioblastomas are highly aggressive brain tumors with a very poor prognosis. Even with aggressive treatment, recurrence is nearly systematic. Researchers from IRCM (CEA-Jacob) have decrypted molecular mechanisms that enable treatment resistance and escape for a subpopulation of cells.
Researchers from MIRCen (CEA-Jacob) have shown that exposure to alpha-synuclein aggregates may affect dopaminergic neuron survival in Parkinson's disease by reducing astrocyte support for them.
In an international collaboration, a team from MIRCen (CEA-Jacob) studied the properties of toxic alpha-synuclein aggregates in fixed brain samples from patients, depending on their tissue origin and the type of synucleinopathy developed.
A new international study, published in Cell, co-leaded by IDMIT (CEA-Jacob) and the Department of Medical Microbiology of the University of Amsterdam, presents the results of preclinical trials of a new protein vaccine candidate against Covid-19.
Under the coordination of the MSF Foundation, researchers and engineers from the University of Évry, the CEA, the CNRS, Médecins Sans Frontières and the Bacteriology/Virology Department of the Henri-Mondor hospital (AP-HP) teamed to develop a mobile application to ease the determination of antibiotic resistance.This application aimed at addressing a major public health issue will be freely available to medical personnel worldwide once clinically validated and CE certified. The demonstration of the technical feasibility of their approach was published on 19 February 2021 in Nature Communications.
In an article entitled "Reactive astrocyte nomenclature, definitions, and future directions," published as a first consensus statement in the journal Nature Neuroscience, more than 80 international specialists, including Carole Escartin from LMN (MIRCen/CEA-Jacob) as first co-author, have established a nomenclature and definitions for reactive astrocytes.
Genoscope was part of an international team that assembled the genome of Cotesia wasps and identified therein chromosomal colonization by a virus that settled into the wasp genome a hundred-million years ago. Their results suggest that the evolutionary course of a virus integrated within the genome of a eukaryote changes completely when the former is beneficial to the latter.
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