Topic: Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique
Scientists in France have isolated a new giant virus that lurks inside amoeba and whose gene pool includes genetic material from other species.The virus " is a completely new viral form," said Didier Raoult, head of infectious and emerging tropical disease research ...
In metazoan organisms, terminal differentiation is generally tightly linked to cell cycle exit, whereas the undifferentiated state of pluripotent stem cells is associated with unlimited self-renewal. Our results indicate that MafB/c-MafB deficiency renders self-renewal compatible with terminal differentiation. It thus appears possible ...
A pair of amateur fossil enthusiasts have uncovered the world's biggest dinosaur footprints. The round prints are about one and a half metres wide, which palaeontologists at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) reckon were made by animals around 7.5 ...
Mark Greenlee, the chair for experimental psychology at Germany's University of Regensburg and the coordinator of the project, says that computer models of the human brain need to be validated by experiment. The group's challenge was to pull together traditionally disparate fields ...
ANY child can make a butterfly print, but doing so on an industrial scale is far from child's play. The densely packed microscopic bumps of the lotus leaf and the waffle-like structures found on butterfly wings both make it difficult for water ...
Electrically conductive regions in Earth's mantle have been interpreted to reflect the presence of either silicate melt or water dissolved in olivine. 1 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National des Sciences de l'Univers (INSU), Universite d'Orleans, Universite Fran ois ...
Our knowledge of the sulfur cycle on early Earth is still in its infancy. are highly unlikely to account for the range of 34S and 33S values recorded for the microscopic sulfides at the North Pole. 3 Geological Survey of Western Australia, ...
Universite' de la Me'diterrane'e, Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy, Case 906, 13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France; Institut National de la Sante' et de la Recherche Me'dicale (INSERM), U631, 13288 Marseille, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR6102, 13288 Marseille, France. Toll-interleukin-1 ...
"In the first IPCC report in 1990 there were no real observations demonstrating that climate had changed, only a prognosis that it would change," says Herve Le Treut, atmospheric physicist at CNRS (France's National Center for Scientific Research) and a lead author ...
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