Organized by the CNRS and the French Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, the Year of Biology aims to bring the worlds of teaching and research closer ...
How do spiders hunt "in unison"?
Among the 50,000 known species of spiders, about twenty have developed a permanent social life characterized by a remarkable cooperation. Among them, one o...
HEATR3: a red blood cell chaperone
Diamond-Blackfan anemia is a rare disease characterized by a defect in red blood cell production. In an article published in the journal Blood, Marie-Fran...
"Derrière le blob, la recherche" : meeting on 19 February at the Quai des Savoirs
The citizen science projet “Derrière le blob, la recherche” (“Behind the blob, research”) will be presented during a conference at the Quai des Sa...
A new RNA chaperone and an RNA helicase accompany the birth of the large ribosome subunit
In eukaryotic cells, the molecular events underlying the assembly of the precursor particles of the large ribosomal subunit remain poorly understood.In two...
A mentoring program for young female PhD students
Since 2015, a national mentoring program devised by the Femmes & Sciences association has been supporting more than 300 female doctoral students at the daw...
Artificial intelligence approach helps map new cancer therapeutic targets
In the DNA molecule, the formation of secondary G-quadruplexes (or G4) can lead to genome instability by creating mutations. These G4s are currently being ...
When chaos generates order between cells
During embryonic development, a single cell will give rise to hundreds of thousands of specialized cells organized into tissues and functional organs.By fo...
Discovering the sense of smell, with Julie Batut
Julie Batut (MCD-CBI) has chosen a Lego® construction to illustrate her work on the development of the olfactory sensory organ in the zebrafish embryo.Her...
Is DNA a language like any other ?
Comparable to a language, DNA carries and transmits messages expressed by our genes. This massive, coded genetic information is deciphered and read by scie...
