Phylodynamics: a virus profiler
Published on: May 11, 2020
An article published in Le Monde on April 22 tells us more about a discipline...
Protecting the sea, feeding people
Published on: April 28, 2020
How can we reconcile the imperative need to protect coral reefs without penalizing...
PhyML, a software package from Montpellier to trace the Covid-19 epidemic
Published on: April 10, 2020
The PhyML bioinformatics software, developed over the last fifteen years at the...
MOOD: A project to better detect emerging diseases
Published on: March 24, 2020
Coordinated from Montpellier by CIRAD researcher Renaud Lancelot, the MOOD project has been...
The mystery of tardigrades' extreme resistance finally solved?
Published on: March 11, 2020
September 2007. A Russian rocket takes off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying...
When a Nobel Prize in Chemistry honors a battery
Published on: January 06, 2020
While the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded for 2019 to the pioneers of the lithium-ion battery, this...
Food risks and hazards: the great confusion
Published on: November 28, 2019
In the light of recent media reports (company fire,...
NAGOYA Protocol: universities at the heart of ABS approaches
Published on: November 05, 2019
The University of Montpellier implements the regulations governing access to resources...
UM researchers win gold in Boston
Published on: November 05, 2019
For the second year running, a team of UM students wins a medal...
Zika's viral odyssey finally revealed
Published on: October 17, 2019
The Institut de Research en Infectiologie de Montpellier (CNRS/UM) has demonstrated the...
The digital divide must not be considered on an individual scale, but on a collective one.
Published on: October 14, 2019
What if, instead of thinking of the "digital divide" in terms of individuals, with access or...
Seas of exile: the last refuges of large marine predators
Published on: September 13, 2019
To escape the pressure of human activity, large marine predators have no choice but to...
The University of Montpellier wins an award in Orlando, Florida with Atome Hôtel!
Published on: May 09, 2019
With the webdocumentary Atom Hotel and the atomic tour organized over the school year...
Ming clams, glass sponges, when life crosses the millennia
Published on: March 14, 2019
Climb aboard a time machine to catch a glimpse of a prehistoric mammoth or...
Raphaël, 8: "What are chromosomes for?"
Published on: January 17, 2019
Our body is made up of a collection of cells. Inside each of them is a small "...
Toads, fish and nematode worms: the space station's strange menagerie
Published on: January 11, 2019
We call them "model organisms": flies, mice, zebrafish, frogs or...