Apr 26
6 000 French are living with cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that clogs the airways and causes digestive disorders. At the moment, without a lung transplant, life expectancy does not exceed 24 or even 25 years. The research work on the origins of this disease and ways to annihilate the highly disabling symptoms. Cystic fibrosis The CFTR is responsible for this disease. Figure Toony / GNU Free Documentation License 1 500 mutations in a gene identified Difficulties in breathing, weakness up front to infections. Continue reading »
Apr 26
The tremors characterize Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative disease like Alzheimer’s disease or Huntington. Yet these movements are emerging as the face of evil that eats away at the brains of patients. Each gesture of daily life becomes difficult to catch a cup, dressing only… All voluntary movements are slowed down irretrievably.scanner maaldie Parkinson Scanner brains healthy and suffering from the disease Parkinson. DR Images Some neurons defective The brain is different in all regions which have a function well established: Continue reading »
Apr 26
Malaria, cystic fibrosis … affect millions of people around the world. The search is actively working on these diseases to develop a vaccine or effective treatment.It begins with an oversight, then a second, then a white several minutes. Alzheimer’s disease is an evil that strikes the human nervous system. 25 million people worldwide suffer from this regenerative disease that affects memory. Continue reading »
Apr 24
Last part of a trilogy devoted to the ocean ecosystem in all its dimensions. In 2003 Sea: an ocean of wealth? interviews we offered a dive to the bottom of the oceans. In the past year, interviews 2004 Fish & advanced scientifically put in the spotlight fishery resources and relationships between scientists and fishermen. This year, the talks move on the edge ocean to complete the presentation of the World Ocean.
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Apr 24
The Rio Conference in 1992, the Montego Bay Convention on the Law of the Sea respectively 15 and 20 years. The Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas 10 years. The Protocol coupled with the cost of exploitation and depletion said “programmed” of oil and gas, provides research on renewable energies a new impetus. * What role will be given in France renewable energy from the sea while it undertakes Grenelle the environment? * What are the strategies of major industrial and financial groups globally? * What are the challenges to exploit the natural phenomena of the seas and oceans on the scientific, technological, industrial, economic, social and legal?
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Apr 15
Aristotle does not criticize the speech but the mythical natural language. We can take the language categorically as a result of this review. For Aristotle, natural language is certainly able to describe the world but it shows flaws most important of which is that some words are not matched to the world ( “goat-deer,” Centaurus “and so on.). From the viewpoint of the philosophy of language, it is possible to consider Aristotle proposes to provide new constraints on natural language to define the “right” language for science demonstration. Continue reading »
Apr 15
The Greek philosophy first proposed a theory of science, which is considered capable of producing a certain knowledge or epistemic. This theory contains a model of the reason for the man of science (the so-called formal logic), which allows to recognize the sound reasoning. The principle of contradiction is the central pillar of the system. To be true, a scientific theory must meet the requirements of universality, of necessity (determinism) and intelligibility of the question. Classical science has waived two of these criteria: Newton admits he does not know the cause of the physical attraction of two bodies at a distance; Continue reading »
Apr 09
The glasses allow those who did well, or poorly, to recover his eyesight. That is a fact. And one might think a priori that it is a blessing. But it is not. Because we forget to say that, in many cases, the cure may be worse than the disease…
Based on this observation, which develops medical particularly in the 1930’s, this book archeology digs visual logic of thought, simple, but overlooked or overshadowed, that the compensatory techniques actually turned against what they purport to replace . Continue reading »
Apr 03
There are several theories of the expansion of Homo to modern man but scientists agree on a few points. Homo habilis, our oldest ancestor identified (3 million years ago), is located in the cradle of Africa. Homo erects who emigrated first from Africa to Asia there are 2 million years … Then a second time to Europe 1 million years later. So all 500000 fossils found in Africa confirms that Homo erects evolved into modern man. Continue reading »
Apr 03
Joris Van der Hoven APRIL initiated on a working group to promote open-source software in scientific research. Himself, author of GNU-TeX macs works in a French university, and he believes the software and / or created during research funded by the State must be Free Software. Continue reading »