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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Modified mosquitoes, transformations of living things, genetic manipulation... Advances in biotechnology give us a feeling of omnipotence. And it is nature that pays the price. Isn't it time to ask the right questions? Threats to ecosystems and the climate are forcing us to change course.
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The right to cognitive freedom, the right to mental privacy, the right to mental integrity and the right to psychological continuity are the four new laws proposed by researchers to protect themselves from a future that will be dominated by neuroscience. New rights of
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On the occasion of the 85th ACFAS summit, at McGill University in Montreal, a colloquium will be held on Thursday 11 and Friday 12 May 2017 on the theme "Technoscientific innovations and interdisciplinary perspectives for an education for living things: aims and strategies". Since 1933, the Francophone scientific community has benefited from this
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American researchers have managed to reconstitute human heart tissue that functions like a heart: it beats and conducts blood through a cardiovascular system. What's new is that this tissue is made from purchased spinach leaves, just like any housewife would do... at the market! For
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Comme chaque année, le Massassuchet Institute of Technology livre dans sa publication, MIT Technology Review, les dix innovations disruptives de l’année. Cette sélection est à regarder avec attention car, en général, le MIT a le nez fin. L’année dernière il avait cité CRISPR, la fusée réutilisable ou la voiture autonome
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Nommé à la tête du Comité consultatif national d’éthique pour les sciences de la vie et de la santé (CCNE) en décembre dernier, le Pr Jean-François Delfraissy veut donner une plus grande ouverture à l’institution vieille de 34 ans. Pragmatique, cet immunologiste a appris dans sa longue expérience auprès des
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On 30 January next, the European Bioethics Forum will open its seventh edition until 4 February. On the theme "Human, post-human", which will be broken down into 35 debates, 135 experts, 40 major witnesses from the public, 370 schoolchildren and the general public will give their views. The human being is being transformed before our eyes, physically,
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Des centaines de jeunes de 17 à 25 ans, étudiants ou engagés dans la vie active, et une trentaine de chercheurs de toutes disciplines se réuniront pour la première fois le 28 janvier 2017 à Caen et à Rennes, pour la nouvelle édition des rencontres « CNRS Jeunes Sciences et
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Des dirigeants du monde entier vont se pencher mercredi pour la première fois sur le problème des superbactéries résistantes aux antibiotiques, qui rendent de plus en plus de maladies, comme la tuberculose ou les maladies sexuellement transmissibles, extrêmement difficiles à soigner. Photo : bactérie Escherichia coli La réunion de haut
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L’Académie des sciences fête ses 350 ans. La grande dame réunit ses troupes de biologistes pour rendre hommage à Gregor Mendel (le pionnier des travaux sur l’hérédité) et à ses dignes descendants. Du 11 au 13 septembre, se sont succédées à la tribune de l’Institut de France les plus
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Battle stations in the world's scientific academies. The CRISPR/Cas9 technique of genetic surgery is so effective, fast and inexpensive that there are concerns about its use in therapeutics and on the human embryo. But visions differ in Europe, the United States or Asia? Avoid a nightmare. Under
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Mystery in Wisconsin. 21 people have died since the beginning of the year from an infection by a common bacteria, Elizabethkingia anophelis. Authorities do not understand how this microorganism, common in the soil or in the gut of mosquitoes - including Anopheles, hence its name - became a killer. True,
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