::: 19/03 - As part of the Science and Innovation Breakfast, the Société d'encouragement pour l'industrie nationale is organising a conference on Thursday 19 March 2020, from 9.00 to 10.30 a.m., on the theme "Men and bees: a necessary and demanding cohabitation". Guest: André
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Et si le vivant était anarchique - La génétique est-elle une gigantesque arnaque ? by Jean-Jacques Kupiec - Edition Les Liens qui libèrent (LLL), October 2019 - 256 pages Would the gene determine the essential physical and psychic characteristics of the individual? In any case, this is what genetics proclaims.
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I am dragging myself along, I am no longer worth anything... Affected by old age, "organ" disease or accidents in life, my body no longer responds, it has become my best enemy and remembers me at the slightest wrong step. This body loved, adored, pampered since
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In the 19th century, skulls and brains were measured to justify the hierarchy between sexes, races and social classes. In the 20th century, cognitive tests, brain imaging and genes were discovered and accepted as modern criteria. What will the 21st century be like, since the discovery of plasticity?
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A journey to the centre of the body's digestive system You have a few weeks left to visit the exhibition! You'll have to get used to the idea that our body is not only made up of flesh, blood, bones and muscles, but also of a whole world of bacteria, bacteria, fungi and viruses.
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The archaeology of life and artificial life is on display at the Centre Pompidou, which presents the recent works of some fifty creators and research from scientific laboratories in a forward-looking manner. Its very material is evolutionary, with some works being involved in a process of growth or degeneration.
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It is often thought that virtual reality is a recent technological breakthrough, yet it is a concept that is more than half a century old. Augmented reality, which can be considered as a specific declination of virtual reality, is becoming established throughout the medical sector, particularly in
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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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The threat that is expected to kill 10 million people a year by 2050 is that of antibiotic resistance. Any alternatives? Yes, with a century-old therapy, bacteriophage viruses. Phage therapy treats infections with phages, natural viruses that attack bacteria. This is what we
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The brain is a constantly evolving organ and its functioning raises many questions. For example, scientists are working to discover how memories are created in the brain so that they can be targeted, restored and enriched with implants, and the necessary technologies already exist under
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Malaria, Zika, chikungunya... are terrible scourges. Caused by mosquitoes that all the affected countries intend to eradicate. Researchers have long been examining chemical (insecticides), physical (radiation), transgenic solutions... Nothing seems to be effective enough next to a bludgeoning weapon: genetic forcing. It is a
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Scientific culture is in crisis. For several years now, the universality, cultural value and social impact of scientific work has been increasingly questioned. In a forum co-signed by some sixty personalities, Virginie Tournay, director of research at the CNRS Research Centre
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Scientists at the University of Lincoln in the United Kingdom have developed a new technique to coat gold nanoparticles with a specific protein so that they can be used to address a drug that will target a specific area of the body, such as a cancerous tumour, very precisely. Gold nanoparticles are
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In the 19th century, Cesare Lombroso founded scientific criminology. He claimed to identify criminals by the anatomical features of the face and skull. Science came to the rescue of justice... Where are we in the 21st century? The same quest still drives some biologists, particularly in the United States...
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Professor Anne Dejean-Assémat, Director of the Nuclear Organization and Oncogenesis Unit at the Pasteur Institute and Inserm, has just been awarded the 2018 Sjöberg Prize, along with Professors Hugues de Thé (Collège de France) and Zhu Chen (Jiao Tong University in Shanghai). This prize, placed under the aegis of the Académie Royale
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While the ozone hole tends to close over Antarctica, scientists observe that this is far from being the case at lower latitudes, where sunlight is strongest and billions of people live. In these regions, ozone
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As the "Etats Généraux de la Bioéthique", organized by the French National Consultative Committee on Ethics (CCNE), opens on January 18, preceding the revision of the law, Ifop and the European Forum on Bioethics, in partnership with the newspaper La Croix, have asked the French people how they view the new law.
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Proud of the French scientific community, the French have an unshakeable faith in research, a vector of progress and competitiveness for the country, according to the exclusive Quattrocento - Opinionway study: "French views and expectations on scientific research". Innovation, financing, business creation: is French research still in the race?
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The exhibition "Pasteur, the experimenter", presented from 12 December 2017 to 19 August 2018 at the Palais de la découverte, looks back at man and the work of the scientist; it seeks to explain the context of his work, his discoveries and their applications, beyond the legend. An exhibition that finds
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Antibiotic resistance - the phenomenon whereby bacteria stop responding to certain antibiotics - is a growing threat worldwide. A threat that is expected to kill 10 million people a year by 2050. Many major pharmaceutical companies have stopped developing antibiotics.
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