She uses a plant from Reunion Island to treat cancer
We met Anne-Laure Morel in her laboratory at the Cyclotron Réunion Océan Indien (CYROI), the biotech incubator at the Saint-Denis Technopole. Trained at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, this 36-year-old woman from Reunion Island fights against cancer every day in this incubator with pipettes and test tubes.
Choose the right Shaker for your laboratory
A shaker is a laboratory device, mainly used in chemistry and biology, and its purpose is to mix, blend or agitate substances in a tube or flask. It has a board where flasks, beakers or test tubes can be placed. It shakes or agitates substances and it is suitable for culturing microbes, washing bolts and general mixing.
She changed the family business for science
In the documentary Chiñoles y bananas, journalist Susana Ye, a self-described “alicanchina”, showed the lives of a handful of chiñoles, the grown-up children of the first Chinese to arrive in Spain in the 1980s and 1990s. They joked that they were bananas, because this fruit is yellow on the outside and white on the inside.
Scientists gave MDMA to Octopuses
When humans take the drug MDMA, versions of which are known as molly or ecstasy, they commonly feel very happy, extraverted, and particularly interested in physical touch. A group of scientists recently wondered whether this drug might have a similar effect on other species—specifically, octopuses, which are seemingly as different from humans as an animal can be.
The oldest animal on Earth
It was oval and flat with a kind of central dorsal, measured several tens of centimeters in length and lived at the bottom of the oceans, without mouth, intestines or anus, half a billion years ago.
Scientists reveal how to boost radiotherapy
Scientists have recently identified a molecular pathway that links the movement of energy-producing centers, or mitochondria, in cancer cells to resistance to radiotherapy. This, they say, could lead to improved cancer treatments.
World’s first drug that blocks metastasis developed
Science has struck a sure blow against colon cancer, the malignant tumor with the highest incidence in our country. Spanish researchers have successfully tested in animals a nanodrug capable of blocking the spread of the disease, known as metastasis. A process that affects forty percent of the million cases of this type of cancer diagnosed each year in the world, and which represents the main cause of death.
Dangerous bacteria plays hide and seek in hospitals
The researchers found three variants of this multidrug-resistant bacteria, which cannot be reliably controlled by any drug currently on the market. “We started with samples in Australia,” and then with other samples the researchers got a “global overview and found that the bacteria is present in many countries and institutions around the world,” explained one of the authors, Ben Howden, director of the Microbiological Diagnostics Unit at the University of Melbourne’s Doherty Institute Public Health Laboratory. Should we be concerned? L’Express reports.
Do you know why a spectrophotometer is so important?
A spectrophotometer is an instrument that measures how much light a substance absorbs. It measures the amount of photons absorbance after it passes through a solution. Every substance will transmit (reflect) and absorb light slightly differently.
Do you know why a pH meter is so important?
A pH meter is a scientific instrument used to measure the hydrogen-ion activity in water-based solutions and it indicates the acidity or alkalinity expressed as pH using a scale of 0 to 14. A pH meter. The pH of a substance indicates the proportion of hydrogen ions formed in a certain volume of water.