The European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN) has announced that its Large Hadron Collider has produced the first particle collisions since it was inaugurated one year ago.
The world's biggest atom-smasher, which was shut down soon after its inauguration amid technical faults, restarted on Friday, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said Friday.
After more than 25 years of research, an encouraging vaccine trial for the AIDS virus has been carried out in Thailand. Researchers said that it had lowered the rick of infection by approximately 31%.
The key to eternal youth could be cutting calories, scientists from the Institute of Healthy Ageing at University College London (UCL) have found, after experiments blocking the production of a certain protein suggested aging can be treated.
A new AIDS vaccine tested on volunteers in Thailand protected a significant proportion of volunteers against infection, US and Thai researchers revealed Thursday in the first case of any vaccine even partly succeeding against the deadly disease.
On top of main scientific stakes, embryonic stem cells research has also great economical outlets. But how French laboratories can compete with counterparts subjected to a legislation less restrictive ?
IBM and Caltech have developed a method using "DNA origami" — folding DNA to make nanoscale two- or three-dimensional shapes — to design a more powerful generation of ultra-tiny microchips.
British researchers at Newcastle University claim to have created human sperm using embryonic stem cells in a step they say could help develop treatments for male infertility.
Ifremer, the French institute of sea exploitation research, turns 25 this year. To celebrate, a succession of 15 short programmes will be broadcast on FRANCE 24 to raise awareness about the organisation's work.
