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Abstract Discussion of cultural, commercial and political relations between the Levant and Mesopotamia in the Ebla archive period (with Anatolia and Egypt in the background). Examination of the question of center and periphery. Abstract on the original …

Résumé Comment, en 1314, le scandale des brus du roi devient-il l’affaire de la Tour de Nesle   ? En s’intéressant aux réécritures légendaires d’un épisode qu’on pourrait juger mineur, on cherche à interroger les rapports entre ce genre décrié qu’est la « …

Abstract As misfortune never comes alone, the causes of biodiversity loss never act in isolation. Biological invasions are part of a general context of global change, including habitat loss, climate change and pollution. And each threatened species is …

Abstract Freshwater fish faunas have evolved in isolation on different continents over millions of years, creating distinct biogeographical regions with specific compositions. Freshwater fishes are the only vertebrate group for which regions are composed …

Abstract This final lecture will explore the notion of immunoception, showing how the brain is able to detect and interpret signals of immune origin as a true sense in its own right. Drawing on recent work, it will illustrate how these perceptions can …

Documents and media Watch the video dubbed in French Watch the video dubbed in English Abstract What is a draft  ? What is a failure  ? What is a comeback  ? What is rewriting a thousand times  ? What is the stubbornness and will to surpass to which …

Abstract How is the tragic link between intimacy and history articulated  ? When everything is in pieces and the image is lost, how can we rebuild  ? How can we rebuild from the notion of failure, writing, crossing out, rewriting, crossing out again? How …

Sandrine Lyonnard : "From atom to cell: looking inside batteries with the Grands Instruments" Hervé Beuffe : "Valley of hope for the French Na_ion …

Abstract This final lecture will discuss the proof of a recent result in joint work with Zakharov, bounding the size of subsets of F_p^n not containing p distinct vectors summing to zero. As discussed in the previous lecture, this leads to bounds for the …

Abstract We have no Templar archives in the kingdom of Mari : so it's in the texts from the palace that we find the elements that enable us to reconstruct the lives of the priests in charge of the sanctuaries. Two other categories of religious personnel …

Abstract One of the most important medical innovations to arise from the genome revolution is the development of liquid biopsies: simple blood tests which replace the need for invasive sampling in fields as diverse as pregnancy, transplant medicine, …

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Abstract In 1994, BRCA1, the emblematic breast cancer predisposition gene, was identified thanks to the contribution of families with multiple cases. Thirty   years later, with a dozen other genes identified and tens of thousands of tests carried out …

Abstract Detection of enhancers by epigenetic and chromatin structure approaches, multiome approach, mechanisms of enhancer function to initiate transcription of a target gene. In this third   lesson, the different approaches to epigenetic profiling are …

Abstract This lecture lays the historical and methodological foundations for answering a fundamental question  : how much of our biological diversity is attributable to genetics  ? Following a retrospective of Mendel's work on heredity, it will look at …