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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 team from I2BC has uncovered the key steps governing the assembly and regulation of iron–sulfur cluster biosynthesis, essential metallic cofactors involved in numerous biological functions. Defects in this process lead to pathologies such as Friedreich’s ataxia. These studies represent major advances toward the development of future therapies.
A team from SHFJ has developed an original method of 3D spirometry using pulmonary magnetic resonance imaging in a cohort of volunteers breathing freely. This approach has revealed the existence of common patterns among individuals that depend mainly on gravity. This is a step towards a regional pathophysiological characterisation of respiratory diseases.
Des chercheurs de BioMaps (SHFJ) et de MOODS ont validé une approche innovante de neuroimagerie moléculaire permettant de suivre, de manière non-invasive, les effets de la kétamine sur la densité synaptique dans un modèle préclinique de dépression.
A team of researchers from BioMaps (SHFJ) is proposing a new reconstruction method for PET imaging that combines optimization algorithms with deep neural networks. Their “plug-and-play” regularization approach ensures improved image quality thanks to PET-specific reconstruction learning, while guaranteeing stability and robustness—two critical aspects in the use of AI-based medical techniques.
Researchers at the SCBM and BAOBAB have developed a new version of their nanometric micellar vector designed for fluorine-19 magnetic resonance tumor imaging. This version is intended to enhance MRI contrast by switching off the signal on demand in certain areas, while preserving it in pathological regions to be imaged.
Researchers at SHFJ and NeuroSpin applied a passive MRI elastography sequence to patients with brain tumors. This non-invasive approach provided information on tumor stiffness and nature, and could support early detection, surgical planning, and treatment monitoring.
Researchers from CEA-Jacob and the Genome Integrity team at I2BC, in collaboration with Gustave Roussy and the Institut Pasteur, demonstrate that the Rap1 protein prevents the translocation of the Ku protein— a major factor in double-strand break repair — thereby avoiding deleterious fusions between chromosomes.
The CEA is revealing a series of in vivo human brain images acquired with the Iseult MRI machine and its unmatched 11.7 teslas magnetic field strength. This success is the fruit of more than 20 years of R&D as part of the Iseult project, with one pillar goal being to design and build the world’s most powerful MRI machine. Its ambition is to study healthy and diseased human brains with an unprecedented resolution, allowing us to discover new details relating to the brain’s anatomy, connections, and activity.
In an article in the New York Times, Stanislas Dehaene (NeuroSpin director) and Mathias Sablé-Meyer (PhD student) discuss recent results obtained in collaboration with the Collège de France, the CNRS and the University of Paris 8 that show that humans have a universal capacity to understand abstract geometric concepts.
September 2021, the 11.7 Tesla MRI of the Iseult project, the most powerful in the world for human imaging, has just unveiled its first images.
Le projet EXPERIENCE cherche à utiliser la réalité virtuelle pour améliorer la vie quotidienne en permettant de nouvelles formes d’interaction sociale et d’expression personnelle.
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.
