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By improving the in vitro reconstitution of the iron-sulfur clusters biosynthesis machinery, a team from SBIGEM (CEA-Joliot / I2BC), with its French, German and Spanish collaborators, clarifies the function of frataxin, a protein involved in Friedreich’s ataxia.
A new PET imaging method by antibody pretargeting was developed at SHFJ, in collaboration with teams of SCBM and SPI. It consists in reacting in vivo a molecule labeled with 18Fluor with an antibody previously fixed on a tumor and this, in an extremely fast and selective manner, thanks to a « click-chemistry » reaction. The very good results obtained allow to consider the use of pre-targeted antibodies in nuclear medicine.
NeuroSpin researchers used ultra-high-field functional magnetic resonance imaging (7T) to understand how our brains process visual informations in the perception of numbers. Results, published in the journal eLife, show a direct perception of numbers in healthy adults.
Recent work by SBIGeM (I2BC@Saclay) highlights how two essential components of DNA transcription into RNA coordinate to recruit the Rad2/XPG DNA repair protein, thus linking these two fundamental cellular processes.
The SHFJ/IMIV laboratory (Inserm 1023/CNRS/CEA/UP-Sud), in collaboration with hospital-university teams, has shown that, in patients with advanced-stage large cell lymphoma (B type), automatic quantitative measurements of tumor dissemination detected by whole-body PET imaging have a predictive value of progression-free survival (tumor stabilization) and overall survival.
A NeuroSpin team showed that the mere short-term storage of information may proceed without consciousness or persistent neural activity, but that manipulating information in working memory requires both. This study, thereby reconciling a hotly debated topic in the field of neuroscience, was published in PNAS.
A team of NeuroSpin, in collaboration with Hôpital Henri Mondor (Créteil), has developed, by machine learning, a method called SmartPulse, which allows, for large organs, the acquisition of high field (3T) clinical quality images, without prior calibration.
A unique interdisciplinary collaboration between archaeologists and researchers of NeuroSpin (GIN, Bordeaux University/CEA/CNRS) offers for the first time analysis elements of the symbolism of prehistoric traces found on ancient Paleolithic engravings. These abstract patterns are analyzed by the same brain areas than those that recognize objects and also activate a well-known left hemisphere area involved in the treatment of written language.
Researchers from I2BC@Saclay, the University of Aarhus and the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt reveals the first cryo-EM high-resolution structures of one of the P4-ATPases. Study has been published in Nature. It give a better insight towards the understanding of the transport mechanisms of membrane lipids. A lipid pathway through the protein membrane domain is suggested.
A collaboration between teams from SIMOPRO and Sanofi sheds new light on the origin of the immune responses developed by patients with scleroderma when treated by injection of relaxin, a therapeutic protein. The study was published in The Journal of Immunology.
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