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Bacillus cereus spores © PIHM

Press release

25 May 2018

Nosocomial infections can also be caused by the Bacillus cereus bacterium

While Bacillus cereus is well known as a source of food infections, researchers from INRA and ANSES, working with doctors at nine French hospitals1 including those in the Paris Public Hospital System (AP-HP), have demonstrated for the first time that this bacterium is also responsible for inter- and intra-hospital nosocomial contamination.

Vache et son veau quelques heures après le vélage (Ferme expérimentale, Grignon).. © INRA, CAIN Anne-Hélène

News

13 Apr 2018

Preattachment embryos of domestic animals: insights into development and paracrine secretions

A review summarizes the signals exchanged between conceptus and endometrium tissues that govern the fertility of livestock mammals.

A herd of Lacaune dairy sheep at INRA’S La Fage experimental farm. The farm is located along the Causse du Larzac plateau and is an experimental site for dairy sheep for INRA’s Animal Genetics division.. © INRA, MAITRE Christophe

News

23 Mar 2018

SMARTER H2020: breeding small ruminants to make raising livestock more sustainable

For the past two years, teams at INRA’s Occitanie-Toulouse centre have been working with stakeholders from around the world on the SMARTER project. Their proposal to study genetic selection to increase resilience and efficiency in small ruminants in their local environments has just been accepted for the European H2020 programme.

French & Brazilian flags

News

20 Mar 2018

Creation of an International Associated Laboratory between the Joint Research Unit STLO and a Brazilian university

The result of several years of collaboration between the Joint Research Unit for the Science and Technology of Milk and Eggs (STLO) and scientists at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, this International Associated Laboratory is the first for INRA with a South American country. It is also the first International Associated Laboratory to be managed by an INRA team in Bretagne-Normandie.

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News

02 Mar 2018

OpenMinTed: a platform of computing tools to extract and exploit information from scientific literature

The Bibliome-MaIAGE team and INRA's Scientific and Technical Information Delegation (DIST) are contributing to the European OpenMinTeD infrastructure project, the objective of which is to set up an online IT platform, encouraging and facilitating the use of text and data mining technologies for research.