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Rare diseases: Launching of the RaDiCo platform and sixteen initial rare disease cohorts
The RaDiCo project, which is funded by the French government under the first “Investments for the Future” programme, aims at providing France and Europe with cohorts that lead to a better understanding of rare diseases and thus improve their management and the development of treatments. The first call for proposals has now ended, and the platform yesterday officially...
Le climat en questions : un site pour tout comprendre
Afin de donner au plus grand nombre des clés de compréhension des enjeux entourant le changement climatique, l’Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace vient de mettre en place un site internet dédié, alimenté par les scientifiques. Présentation.
GrippeNet.fr : s’appuyer sur la population pour surveiller l’épidémie de grippe
Mis en place depuis 2012, le projet Grippenet.fr s’appuie sur les particuliers pour suivre la situation de la grippe en France. Les données recueillies dans ce cadre alimentent notamment des travaux de recherche menés dans le cadre du projet Harms-Flu, financé par l’ANR depuis fin 2012 et qui vise à améliorer les modèles numériques de propagation de cette maladie.
Incas: The first atmosphere polluters in South America?
Until now there has been a consensus of belief in the scientific community that air pollution in the Southern hemisphere began in the industrial period, that is to say less than one hundred years ago. New evidence suggests that it actually dates back to the pre-Columbian civilisations, and to the Incas in particular, who mined Andean copper and silver ores. This...
JPI OCEANS: Launching of a first international call for proposals in the area of marine environment contaminants
ANR, in collaboration with its European partners, has just launched a brand new international call for proposals on the ecological aspects of microplastics in the marine environment. This call comes under the Joint Programming Initiative "JPI OCEANS". The deadline for submitting projects is 31st March 2015.
