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To carry out their activities, Research Teams of the Frédéric Joliot Institute for Life Sciences have developed high-profile technological platforms in many areas : biomedical imaging, structural biology, metabolomics, High-Throughput screening, level 3 microbiological safety laboratory...
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A SCBM Research Team, in collaboration with SHFJ, SIMOPRO and Karolinska Institute, has discovered a method inspired by the "click" chemistry which, from radioactive carbon dioxide, can synthesize in just five minutes radiolabeled molecules containing a cyclic urea moiety. This method has been used for the ultra-rapid isotope labeling of drugs, without modification of their structure and with an unequaled efficiency.
On the 7th and 8th of June were held the second edition of the PhD Days (JDD) of the Frédéric Joliot Institute for Life Sciences. In the spirit of previous days, PhD students and researchers met during four half-days to discuss about their work, but also to discover the diversity of topics addressed in our institute and expand their own knowledge.
Being part of an international consortium, the Neurofunctional Imaging Group (NeuroSpin, Bordeaux) and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguinstics have characterized the asymmetries of surface and thickness of the cerebral cortex of 17,141 individuals from MRI. This study published in PNAS, the largest ever done, provides a unique reference for studying the genetic basis of cerebral asymmetries and the alteration of lateralization during cognitive, neurological and psychiatric disorders.
A team from I2BC@Saclay (SB2SM), in collaboration with the RPBS platform, has put online a server for structural prediction of interactions between proteins. This server, designed for biologists, uses the information provided by the coevolution of protein sequences and predicts the structure of protein complexes, essential information for understanding their functional role.
NeuroSpin researchers (UNATI and UNICOG), in collaboration with the Timone Neuroscience Institute, have studied a type of individual anatomical variation in the structure of the human cortex, the transverse gyrus or 'fold crossing', which separates grooves in two parts. They showed that the presence of this structure in the upper temporal groove is heritable. This result is important, given the role of this region of the brain in the production of language.
A SIMOPRO project supported by SATT Paris-Saclay: in vivo validation of the efficacy of the DTR8 molecule, developed and patented at SIMOPRO (Department of Medicines and Technologies for Health) in collaboration with Inserm, as a treatment for glomerulonephritis rapidly progressive.
Last April, a delegation of experts from the DRF visited colleagues at the Butantan Institute of São Paulo, a biomedical research center that has had close links with several researchers at the Joliot Institute since 2014. This mission is is concluded by the signing of a framework agreement between the two institutes in the field of therapeutic and vaccine innovation.
Two Research Teams from I2BC@Saclay and SPI (LI2D, Marcoule), in collaboration with IRAMIS, highlight the very strong affinity of silica nanoparticles for proteins with RGG motifs (family of binding proteins). RNA), especially when these are methylated. These results are important for the development of safe by design approaches.
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