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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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Researchers from SCBM, in collaboration with Paris-Sud University and INSA Toulouse, developed the first general method for tritium and deuterium labeling of complex molecules with thioether-type motifs (including sulfur atom). This method allows rapid access to tritiated or deuterated molecules used in the pharmaceutical industry for in vivo monitoring or the biological assay of substances of interest.
On the 15th of March, the CNRS awarded the silver medal to Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz for her research on brain mechanisms of infants and young children in learning.
Two Research Teams from SIMOPRO and SCBM, in collaboration with Texas Biomedical Research Institute and Jilin University, showed that anti-ricin compounds Retro-2, discovered at CEA during researches against bioterrorism, inhibit two families of viruses important for public health (Ebola and Marburg filovirus and enterovirus EV71). These results broaden the antiviral spectrum of Retro-2 type compounds.
Misspelled WordNeuroSpin researchers, in collaboration with two German Research Teams in the context of the Human Brain Project (HBP), offer a mapping of the hippocampus with unprecedented resolution, thanks to the very high field MRI, revealing not only its sub-structures, but also its internal neuronal connections and its cellular composition.
On the occasion of the Brain Awareness Week (12-18.3.2018), Frédérique Vidal, Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, met scientists from the neuroimaging center NeuroSpin, located at the CEA Paris-Saclay Center, accompanied by Daniel Verwaerde, CEA General Administrator, and Stanislas Dehaene, Director of NeuroSpin.
Researchers from NeuroSpin (UNICOG) highlighted how the specific region of word recognition develops during the process of learning to read among children during first grade. This work, which helped to locate a "mailbox" in the left hemisphere, was published in the journal PLOS Biology and was the subject of a press release on March 13, 2018.
Muriel Gondry's Research Team (I2BC@Saclay / SBIGeM), in collaboration with SIMOPRO and Biomolecules Laboratory of the Sorbonne University's one, produced 200 cyclodipeptides containing non-natural amino acids by luring and diverting the cellular machinery for the synthesis of proteins. This unprecedented approach significantly increases the diversity of these bioactive molecules.
The Brain Awareness Week 2018 will take place from Monday, March 12th to Sunday, March 18th. On this occasion, NeuroSpin will open its doors to the public (from 12 to 16) by offering this year, in addition to visits from its imagers, a series of "interactive" conferences in which each speaker will be able to rely on a short video. More time will be spent on questions and answers.
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