Spatial Robots: Interactive Architecture and Robotics ESBS – Ecole supérieure de biotechnologie Strasbourg Bienvenue L’École supérieure de biotechnologie de Strasbourg est une école publique, interne à l’université de Strasbourg. Les étudiants allemands, français et suisses suivent la formation d’ingénieur en biotechnologie pendant 3 ans (après un Bac+2). Le programme trinational est assuré grâce à une complémentarité des trois pôles : Bâle, Fribourg et Strasbourg. L’enseignement bénéficie des compétences des enseignants, chercheurs et ingénieurs de nos trois universités partenaires, et de notre centre de recherche associé. Mention spéciale au Concours d’Ethique du Rotary Club Concours d’éthique professionnelle du Rotary Club Remise du prix au siège de l’Unesco à Paris, le 21 mai 2014 Concours d’éthique professionnelle du Rotary Club Remise du prix au siège de l’Unesco à Paris, le 21 mai 2014 Le concours est à l’initiative des Districts français du Rotary International, associés à la Conférence des Grandes Ecoles, et sous les [...] Rentrée 2014/2015 Admissions sur titre 2014-2015 1.
Shattered chromosome cures woman of immune disease Call it a scientific oddity—or a medical miracle. A girl who grew up with a serious genetic immune disease was apparently cured in her 30s by one of her chromosomes shattering into pieces and reassembling. Scientists traced the woman’s improvement to the removal of a harmful gene through this scrambling of DNA in one of her blood stem cells—a recently identified phenomenon that until now had only been linked to cancer. The woman, who lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, suffered from recurring bacterial infections as a child. In 2003, researchers linked WHIM to a gene called CXCR4, which codes for a cell surface protein that immune cells use to recognize chemical messengers called chemokines. Murphy and colleagues have studied WHIM patients at the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) Clinical Center to better understand the disease and develop a possible treatment with a drug that inhibits CXCR4. The woman was that first WHIM patient, now 59 years old. The NIH team began sleuthing.
DeepMind uncovers structure of 200m proteins in scientific leap forward | DeepMind Artificial intelligence has deciphered the structure of virtually every protein known to science, paving the way for the development of new medicines or technologies to tackle global challenges such as famine or pollution. Proteins are the building blocks of life. Formed of chains of amino acids, folded up into complex shapes, their 3D structure largely determines their function. Once you know how a protein folds up, you can start to understand how it works, and how to change its behaviour. In November 2020, the AI group DeepMind announced it had developed a program called AlphaFold that could rapidly predict this information using an algorithm. Last year, DeepMind published the protein structures for 20 species – including nearly all 20,000 proteins expressed by humans – on an open database. “Essentially, you can think of it as covering the entire protein universe. Scientists are already using some of its earlier predictions to help develop new medicines.
PROJECTS | NSTRMNT / BRIAN HARMS | Description from Kruysman-Proto: Conventional 20th century assembly logic was questioned in favor of polymer-based meta-assemblies produced through squishing, sedimenting, embedding, and inlaying. The focus was to create mysterious and alien assemblies which do not resemble known tectonic systems. Projects avoid all types of hardware, expression of technology (although they may in fact contain it), the dogmas of frames and panels, and other 20th century forms of reductive subdivision. Instead, the freeform and figural potentials of polymer and composite construction was exploited in search of new aesthetic and performative territories. Underwriting this desire is the idea of multi-materiality, where the homogeneity of digital surfaces is replaced with complex depth, sectional, and compositional effects. Critical for the ongoing research project of SQUISHED! Project Credits: Alberto Alfonso, Brian Harms, Haejun Jung, Al Ataide, Cheng Gong
IPB - ENSTBB | Ecole nationale sup de tech des biomolecules de Bordeaux Research team edits the DNA of fertilized human embryos For several weeks, rumors have been circulating that a research group in China had performed the first targeted editing of DNA in human embryos. Today, the rumors were confirmed by the appearance of a paper in the journal Protein & Cell, describing genome editing performed at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China. The paper shows that while the technique can work, it doesn't work very efficiently, suggesting there are a lot of hurdles between existing techniques and widespread genetic engineering of humanity. To avoid potential ethical issues, the researchers performed their experiments with embryos that had been fertilized by more than one sperm. While these are regular occurrences in in vitro fertilization procedures, the embryos are inviable and normally discarded. The work relied on the CRISPR-Cas9 system. This has worked in a variety of systems, and the authors confirmed that it works with their gene of choice: the hemoglobin component β-globin.
Wheeler's delayed-choice gedanken experiment with a single atom | Nature Physics The question of whether light behaves like a particle or wave had a long and strongly contested history until the advent of quantum mechanics, where it was accepted that it could indeed exhibit either behaviour. Conversely, it was de Broglie’s hypothesis of matter waves4 that deviated from the preceding view of massive bodies exclusively as particles, which was confirmed by the electron diffraction experiments of Davisson and Germer5. Even more bizarrely, the way in which an experiment is performed seems to induce one of these behaviours to the exclusion of the other. The question of whether a single photon in an interferometer passes through either one arm (as a particle) or both simultaneously (as a wave) led to Wheeler devising his famous gedanken experiment, which supposed that the decision of whether to attempt to measure particle or wave behaviour is made after the photon enters the interferometer.
srpLAB | RETHINKING DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE & MAKING EHESP - Hte Etudes en Santé Publique Habilité depuis fin 2008, le Réseau doctoral en santé publique animé par l’EHESP s’appuie sur des Ecoles doctorales de 9 établissements, couvrant des domaines complémentaires (santé publique, droit, épidémiologie, sciences sociales, management…). Le Réseau doctoral permet aux doctorants inscrits à la fois à l’EHESP et dans une Ecole doctorale partenaire, de conduire une thèse originale portant sur des questions de santé publique relevant des spécialités de santé publique : Biostatistiques et Sciences de l’informationEpidémiologieSanté, environnement, travailEconomie, Management, Droit et Politique de santéSciences humaines et sociales, sciences du comportementSciences infirmières Plus d’information sur la formation Réseau doctoral
New Evidence That Plants Get Their Energy Using Quantum Entanglement GEORGE DVORSKY | Io9 | Jan 13th 2014 Biophysicists theorize that plants tap into the eerie world of quantum entanglement during photosynthesis. But the evidence to date has been purely circumstantial. The fact that biological systems can exploit quantum effects is quite astounding. Good Vibrations But for this to work, plants require the capacity to work in harmony with the wild, wacky, and extremely small world of quantum phenomena. Previous inquiries suggested that this energy is transferred in a wave-like manner, but it was a process that could still be explained by classical physics. In Perfect Quantum Harmony In the new study, however, UCL researchers identified a specific feature in biological systems that can only be predicted by quantum physics. The vibrations in question are periodic motions of the atoms within a molecule. [read full post here] Tags: featured, photosynthesis, plant energy, quantum entanglement, quantum physics