A la demande du Ministère des Solidarités et de la Santé et du Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur, de la Recherche et de l’Innovation, la France s’est organisée pour contribuer à l’évaluation des candidats vaccins contre la Covid-19 les plus prometteurs, via la plateforme COVIREIVAC de l’Inserm. Trois essais cliniques vaccinaux
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The coronavirus pandemic that has hit the world requires a war effort. On the front lines, biotech labs are working tirelessly to discover new weapons to treat and test affected patients and to contain the epidemic in the long term. European laboratories, which are among
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The challenge of climate change is facing countries around the world. In the face of the urgency, everything would suggest that the scientific community is mobilized... this is in fact only very partially true. Scientific institutions are, like States and most social and economic actors, more concerned with the
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"Dancing, graceful, fascinating, strange, delicious, painful, deadly, jellyfish are all of these things. For fishermen, they are potential nuisances; for swimmers, the fear of a painful, sometimes dangerous sting" (1). Yet jellyfish collagen is set to revolutionize in vitro cell culture and medicine.
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Cela fait vingt-cinq ans que l’on nous parle d’un vaccin contre le Sida. Dès 1984 les services de santé publique parlent d’un vaccin imminent. Force est de constater que, malgré l’acharnement d’équipes de scientifiques partout dans le monde, le vaccin se fait encore attendre. Où en sommes-nous, à quel horizon
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Pour la huitième année consécutive, le CEA figure parmi les 100 premiers acteurs mondiaux de l’innovation grâce à sa politique volontariste en matière de propriété intellectuelle. Il est le seul organisme de recherche français à figurer dans le classement Clarivate 2018. Le Top 100 Clarivate prend en compte toutes
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Professor Arnaud Fontanet, a renowned epidemiologist (1), declared: "After a period of splendour that could be called the 'glorious thirty years', from 1960 to 1990, epidemiology is beginning to run out of steam". Epidemiology provides methods for measuring the health status of a population and for identifying the causes of disease. It is
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La médaille de l’innovation 2018 du CNRS est décernée à Valérie Castellani, Thierry Chartier et Daniel Le Berre. Valérie Castellani, Thierry Chartier et Daniel Le Berre sont lauréats de la médaille de l’innovation 2018 du CNRS. Tous les trois recevront cette récompense lors d’une cérémonie ce 10 octobre à
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L’ESITC Caen et le groupe DEME signent une chaire « Travaux offshore et énergies marines renouvelables ». Cette nouvelle chaire a pour objectif de transmettre une expertise aux futurs ingénieurs en matière de travaux offshore et d’énergies marines, et de développer la recherche dans un domaine clé de la
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Frédérique Vidal a donné le coup d’envoi ce vendredi 1er juin au ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur, de la Recherche et de l’Innovation, de la 8e édition de l’Euroscience open forum – ESOF 2018, qui se tiendra à Toulouse du 9 au 14 juillet, en présence de personnalités du monde scientifique.
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L’INPI vient de délivrer son palmarès 2017 des déposants de brevets en France : Après avoir occupé la 7è place de ce classement en 2014, puis la 6è place ces deux dernières années, le CNRS atteint cette fois la 5è place, avec 405 demandes de brevets décomptées (soit une hausse de
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Would blood become the implacable revealer not only of our state of health, but also of our future? Advances in blood screening are accelerating. After the announcement a few days ago of a test that can detect several types of cancer in a single drop of blood, it is now the turn of
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In the field of Artificial Intelligence, many French people have been and still are remarkably at the forefront. But most of our talents remain confined to their research labs and have great difficulty in exploiting their work in operational applications. The valorization of research is therefore
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What should we think about the reasons for our decisions and the ways in which we act in relation to "others"? How can we build a reasoned reflection with a view to acting well? The last symposium "State of the art of teaching and research in ethics", awarded four prizes to four authors
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Télécom ParisTech is committed alongside Polytechnique, Ensae, Ensta and Télécom SudParis in the "NewUni" project in Saclay. The end of 2017 was marked by the affirmation of the "NewUni" project in Saclay by five school directors: Télécom ParisTech has thus committed itself alongside the École polytechnique, Ensae, Ensta, Télécom SudParis in the "NewUni" project in Saclay.
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MINES ParisTech invites you to discover the portraits of its doctoral students and their careers, in connection with the School and its research centres. Today, a meeting with Romain Dupin, PhD student at the Centre PERSEE (Processes, Renewable Energies and Energy Systems). A young researcher of 27 years old, Romain Dupin has been working for
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Every month, MINES ParisTech offers you the opportunity to discover a PhD student and his/her career path in connection with the Engineering School or its research centres. Today, meet Lucile Druel, a doctoral student in the Cemef (Centre de Mise en Forme des Matériaux) team in Sophia Antipolis (Nice). Young researcher from
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Every month, MINES ParisTech offers you the opportunity to discover a doctor and his or her career path in connection with the School or its research centres. Today, meet Kevin Levillain, PhD and currently a post-doctoral student in the framework of the Chair of Theory and Methods of Innovative Design. As a young researcher, Kevin Levillain has
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Every month, MINES ParisTech offers you the opportunity to discover a PhD student and his/her career path in connection with the School or its research centres. Today, meeting with Edgar Hemery, student entrepreneur at the MINES ParisTech robotics centre. Musician and researcher, Edgar Hemery is currently setting up his company to develop an instrument of
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Are the technologies developed in semiconductors transposable to medicine? This is what IBM Research, associated for the occasion with a bio and nano technology institute in Singapore, is trying to prove. Their work has just been published in a scientific journal. The researchers claim to have created a macromolecule capable of eradicating
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