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Antonio Moretta is a post-doctoral biochemist at Pathophysiology and Genetics of Neuron and Muscle Laboratory (PGNM), working on Duchenne disease. He has been awarded a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellowship, designed to promote the international careers of young researchers.

On 4th October 2018, Groupe SEB, through its world number one cookware brand TEFAL, the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Claude Bernard University Lyon 1 (UCBL) inaugurated the ACADEMIC STANDARDS FOR COOKWARE INDUSTRY (ASCI) joint laboratory. The aim is to boost innovation through the exchange of industrial expertise and academic knowledge.

Fellow 2017 L'Or¨¦al-Unesco For Women In Science, Georgiana Juravle, a post-doctoral researcher at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center¡¯s ImpAct Laboratory (Universit¨¦ Claude Bernard Lyon 1 / INSERM / CNRS / Universit¨¦ Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne), is dedicated to the study of the reactions of the brain, in order to understand our senses.

Until now, the reason why some people hate cheese has been a mystery. Researchers at the Centre de Recherche en Neuroscience de Lyon (CNRS/INSERM/Universit¨¦ Claude Bernard Lyon 1/Universit¨¦ Jean Monnet) and the Laboratoire Neuroscience Paris Seine (CNRS/INSERM/UPMC) have just elucidated it.

As they grow up, do children become young Robin Hoods? Depending on their age, they do not allocate resources in the same way between dominant and subordinate individuals. Thus a tendency towards egalitarianism develops and becomes even stronger between the ages of 5 and 8 years. These findings by a team of scientists from the CNRS and the Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lausanne and Neuch?tel (Switzerland) universities provide a clearer understanding of how the notion of equality develops in human beings, and of their sense of justice.

The intestinal microbiota is necessary to ensure optimum postnatal growth and contributes to determining the size of adult individuals, notably in the event of undernutrition. The key element in this relationship is Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1), whose production and activity are in part controlled by the microbiota.

A team of researchers, among them Jean Vannier from the Laboratory of geology of Lyon, has succeeded in reconstructing a 160 million year old compound eye of a fossil crustacean found in southeastern France visible.

Photon counting Spectral CT is a new and promising imaging modality based on conventional CT concept with energy resolving detector technology. A 4 year collaborative European Project led by the Universit¨¦ Claude Bernard Lyon 1, was selected and granted (6.4m€) under the ¡°Horizon 2020¡± European Research and Innovation program. The Spectral Photon counting CT (SPCCT) project involves 11 European partners and will last 48 months from January 16 till December 2019.

The rapid design of catalysts is a key step towards widely accessible electric vehicles more efficient depollution catalysts, cleaner factories... Researchers have developed a simple and faster method to improve the efficiency of a family of catalysts. These compounds indispensable to the industry, facilitate chemical reactions.

If there is one technique used by the physician to explore the human body during every medical examination in order to make a diagnosis or prescribe further tests, it is palpation. By its nature, however, the brain cannot be palpated without using a highly invasive procedure (craniotomy, or opening the skull), which is limited to rare cases.

By analyzing more than 1,000 fossil remains, scientists have discovered that an unassuming, 130-million-year-old water-dwelling plant could be one of Earth¡¯s first flowering plants.

An international team of scientists has completed the largest whole genome study of a single class of animals to date. To map the tree of life for birds, the team sequenced, assembled and compared full genomes of 48 bird species representing all major branches of modern birds.

Ebola GP protein covers the virus¡¯ surface and is shed from infected cells during infection. A study published on November 20th in PLOS Pathogens reports that shed GP can trigger massive dysregulation of the immune response and affect the permeability of blood vessels.

A new computer model suggests that plate tectonics was kick-started by gravity and the spreading of continents during the early days of Earth. The work was published in Nature this week.

Astronomers have mapped the cosmic watershed in which our Milky Way Galaxy is a droplet. The massive structure, which the research team dubs the Laniakea Supercluster, extends more than 500 million light-years and contains 100,000 large galaxies.

Director of the Institut Henri Poincar¨¦ (CNRS/UPMC) and professor of mathematics at the University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, C¨¦dric Villani was elected member of the French Academy of Sciences on December 10, 2013.

The salinity difference between fresh water and salt water could be a source of renewable energy. However, power yields from existing techniques are not high enough to make them viable. A solution to this problem may now have been found.