Biomimicry

L’effondrement de la biodiversité n’est pas une catastrophe pour le monde animal seulement. Elle nous concerne aussi, de manière directe. Car, menacés par la crise climatique et les activités humaines, animaux et plantes sont plus que jamais utiles et précieux pour l’humanité et continuent d’inspirer des découvertes scientifiques, parfois de

Biomim'expo, the major annual gathering of actors and stakeholders in biomimicry and innovations inspired by life, returns for a 4th edition, on 11 September 2019 at the Paris City Hall, and on 22 October at the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie. The event has become the

Research inspired by 3.8 billion years of living R&D Biomimicry is a fast-growing approach, at the heart of the breakthrough innovation strategies of research centres, large companies and start-ups, on many subjects, including the energy transition. The approach makes it possible, in particular, to break out of the

Morphine and codeine painkillers, taxol (anticancer), artemisinin (antimalarial) or aspirin... All these drugs have the particularity of having been discovered in plants or being derived from them. In fact, even today, as for millennia, the environment still provides us with most of the compounds that enable us to treat ourselves. To identify

Biological tissues have complex mechanical properties that are difficult to reproduce with synthetic materials. An international team has succeeded in producing a biocompatible synthetic material that behaves like biological tissues and changes colour as it deforms, like the skin of chameleons. They promise materials

While the floods currently affecting parts of the country are disrupting the landscape and causing damage amounting to hundreds of millions of euros, the need for dykes is felt more than ever. A Lyon-based company is experimenting with a revolutionary process based on biomimicry: using bacteria to create a new type of dyke.

There is a tendency to oppose the artificial and technological world of algorithms to the natural and biological world of life. And yet, nowadays, algorithms have become indispensable for studying the complexity of living things. Hence the growing importance of computer tools, exacerbated by the proliferation of data: witness, sequencing

Inspire nature rather than enslave it. Doesn't that make more sense? Since antiquity man has observed nature for inspiration. During the Renaissance, the great Leonardo encouraged his contemporaries to take lessons from nature because that is where our future lies. Today, with our language

Urban agriculture, bio-inspired habitat, eco-neighbourhoods ... how biomimicry can be used in current architectural projects; the bioluminescence of marine animals as a new source of light; how to reconcile industry with ecology and society, can our economic models repair what they have destroyed; what is the "blob"?

We have been looking forward to it since its first edition in 2016, the biomimicry exhibition opens on June 29th and 30th 2017 on the CEEBIOS campus in Senlis. It is the meeting place for all those who are looking to innovate by listening to the environment in order to respect it more,

Here we are! The BioRESP Forum opens its first edition this Thursday, June 1st. A high point for this new framework and dialogue tool that aims to collectively anticipate the reconfigurations of society and value chains that the bio-economy will bring about. All stakeholders, consumers in

After biomimicry, here comes geomimicry! It is a process that takes its inspiration from the mineral to create new materials. Although similar in structure to their natural counterparts, these new synthetic minerals have the advantage of controlled chemistry and size. The nanoscale size of these new minerals makes it possible to

Researchers have developed a new type of synthetic creature: a Frankenstein-like mixture of cells from the heart of a rat with a robot inspired by a stingray. And this bug works, navigating by light. The idea was born in the mind of bio-engineer Kit...

The entire community of biomimicry players, as well as the curious and those who want to discover how the world is changing, met in Senlis on 1 and 2 July, under the auspices of Ceebios, France's leading development centre for this cutting-edge sector. Biomimicry at the forefront

Biomim'expo will take place on July 1st and 2nd. For the first time, the project is launched to gather on the site of Ceebios in Senlis all the actors who are interested, or already working, in bio-inspired approaches. For a great participative and collective meeting around biomimicry, in a hybrid atmosphere between universities and research centres.

The 550 square kilometre Venice lagoon is fragile and endangered. Like all lagoons, its environment is constantly changing, shaken by the natural movements of the tides and erosion but also and above all by human intervention. And climate change is not helping. But while the