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How synthetic biology could help degrade plastic waste

Tania Louis, PhD in biology and Columnist at Polytechnique Insights

On March 9th, 2023
4 min reading time

While plastics are a pollutant for most living things, some bacteria and fungi have acquired the ability to turn them into a source of energy.

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Giant viruses, enigmatic microscopic behemoths you should know about

Tania Louis, PhD in biology and Columnist at Polytechnique Insights

On February 8th, 2023
4 min reading time
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A digital twin of the lungs: what benefits for medicine of the future?

Martin Genet, Assistant Professor in the Mechanics Department of École Polytechnique in the MΞDISIM team (INIRIA/IP Paris)

On February 1st, 2023
4 min reading time
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Archaea: why science is so interested in this ancient life form

Roxane Lestini, Professor of Biology at École Polytechnique (IP Paris), Béatrice Clouet-d'Orval, Research Director at Centre de Biologie intégrative de l'Université de Toulouse

On December 6th, 2022
4 min reading time
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Why the medical AI revolution could never happen

Joël Perez Torrents, PhD student at I³-CRG* at École Polytechnique (IP Paris)

On November 16th, 2022
5 min reading time

Whilst there may be a disruptive application for AI that could “revolutionise” medical care, developments in healthcare will more likely happen over decades.

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Metagenomics: a new way to study biodiversity at the microscopic level

Tania Louis, PhD in biology and Columnist at Polytechnique Insights

On November 2nd, 2022
4 min reading time

A technique to study multiple complete ecosystems, metagenomics gives access to all the microorganisms in a sample without the need to grow them in culture.