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12/02/2021

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aQCess: the “centrepiece of a transnational quantum ecosystem”

Among the 50 winning projects of the Équipements Structurants pour la Recherche Equipex+ call for expressions of interest, 10 involve researchers from Strasbourg, including one led by the University of Strasbourg. Its name is aQCess and it is one of the first public platforms in quantum physics. Guido Pupillo and Shannon Whitlock, researchers at the Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires, who are coordinating the project, tell us more.

08/02/2021

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Situation report on 8 February 2021: 20% return of students

From 8 February, each faculty, school and training institute of the University of Strasbourg may allow up to 20% of its registered students at a time to return to the university campuses.

17/12/2020

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Are women more resistant to Covid-19?

Different perspectives on Covid-19 research: virology. The statistics on Covid-19 indicate that men are more likely to develop a severe form of the illness. In April 2020, Samira Fafi-Kremer, the director of the Strasbourg Institute of Virology, piloted a study in collaboration with the clinicians from the CHU de Strasbourg and teams from the Institut Pasteur. The study, entitled Serocov-HUS*, shows that women have a longer immunity to the virus than men.

17/12/2020

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Two Strasbourg researchers awarded ERC Consolidator Grants

17/12/2020

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“Making fun of religions is a part of French tradition”

17/12/2020

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Alternating lockdown, a mathematical simulation provides the solution

Different perspectives on Covid-19 research: mathematics. The epidemic poses health, economic and social problems. In order to alleviate these problems, a study based on mathematical models has highlighted the advantages of an alternating lockdown, which would have the same efficacy as the current lockdown. Nava Schulmann, a researcher with the Project Mimesis team at the Institut National de Recherche en Sciences et Technologies du Numérique (INRIA), explains.

17/12/2020

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Silencing excess vitamin D to treat hypercalcaemia

08/12/2020

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Stimulating the orbitofrontal cortex in order to change economic choices

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have gained a better understanding of the physiological process at work in the brain during economic decision-making, proving that the value signals identified in the orbitofrontal cortex are indeed involved in decision-making. Sébastien Ballesta, a lecturer at the Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Adaptatives, who participated in the study published in Nature, explains.

08/12/2020

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Discovery of a mechanism to regulate contact sites between organelles

Researchers from the Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC) have moved another step towards understanding how cells function. They have identified a molecular mechanism that regulates the dynamics of contact formation between organelles. The study of these structures, which enable the transportation of cholesterol to the inside of cells, is a new and fast-expanding field of cell biology.

08/12/2020

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When translation and transcription go hand in hand

The team led by Albert Weixlbaumer, from the Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire has identified new interactions between the ribosome and RNA polymerase in the processes of transcription and translation of the genome.