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As key inflammation regulators, neutrophils are up there with all the other immune cells. An essential role that Véronique Witko-Sarsat has been helping to define for the past thirty years. Her research, which has not always been straightforward, has recently been awarded the International Association of Inflammation Societies’ Woman in Science prize. After receiving the […]

Following her initial training in materials science, Claire Valotteau quickly turned her focus to biology: she has just obtained Atip-Avenir funding in order to study the mechanics of circulating tumor cells. This involves the researcher using extremely powerful analysis tools and developing new ones. How do embryonic cells move and reorganize themselves to form organs? What […]

Toys, computer parts, prostheses, pencil holders… 3D printers bring life to imaginary and everyday concepts. And now also to human organs! Using processes that may have filled Dr. Frankenstein with enthusiasm, tissue engineering makes it possible to accurately print and recreate living biological tissues in three dimensions, with the aim of growing customized grafts. While technology […]

At the Center of Immunology Marseille-Luminy, Réjane Rua and her co-workers are furthering knowledge of the mechanisms that protect our brain. They are studying the properties and functions of newly discovered sentinel cells in our meninges. Just 5 years ago, a discovery was made that has profoundly modified our understanding of brain protection: the meninges, the […]

In addition to being a microbiology and genetics specialist, what sets Aude Bernheim apart is her strong commitment to effecting change. When she is not tracking the similarities between bacterial and human immunity, the young researcher is working to erase the differences between the treatment of men and women in science. Researcher, activist, author. At […]

In Nantes, Jean-Baptiste Dupont is developing in vitro models of human muscles using cells from patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The researcher has two goals: improve the study of this hereditary muscle disease and test gene therapies in development – both thanks to organoids that will enable more reliable observations than those obtained using the […]

Rare are the animal species that menstruate. Camille Berthelot, Inserm research associate at Institut Pasteur, is comparing the genomes of different species to identify the genes responsible for menstruation and – potentially – the factors that cause endometriosis. Menstruation is a characteristic of a few rare mammals: humans, some other primates, some bats, and one […]

Benjamin Chousterman is an anesthesiologist, lecturer and researcher. And what do these activities all have in common? The answer is sepsis – the final stage of infection that leads to failure of the vital organs. Chousterman treats patients with this severe condition and in parallel studies the immune mechanisms that cause it. A recipient of […]

Why do some people lose their central vision? How can we preserve or restore it? These are two of the questions that have guided the career of José-Alain Sahel, and to which he has already provided many elements of response. A determination recently rewarded in Berlin with the Science Breakthrough of the Year in Life […]

A gentle wind blowing through the trees, the smell of fresh coffee wafting through the air, the sound of a swing creaking in the village square, a donkey braying in the distance… This simple and everyday setting is actually anything but! We are in the heart of the Village Landais, a pioneering scientific project that […]