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Climate: Keep calm and take action

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After Paris and Marrakesh, the international conference on climate (COP 23), made a stop in Germany. What was to be expected? And what do we still need to consider when faced with climate change? Suren Erkman responds.

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Posted in Allez savoir, Environment | Tagged Climate, CO2

The molecular scissors that have revolutionised genetics

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With a new tool christened CRISPR-Cas9, modifying a genome is within reach for any molecular biology laboratory. This technology, first used five years ago, is generating high hopes for the treatment of genetic diseases. But it has already raised many concerns.

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Posted in Allez savoir, Medicine, Natural Sciences | Tagged Genomics

Molecular scissors: A discovery with ethical implications

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The success of the CRISPR-Cas9 molecular scissors, which notably allow scientists to modify the DNA of human embryos that are ill as well as insects seen as pests, poses some delicate ethical questions. Alain Kaufmann explains.

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Posted in Allez savoir, Natural Sciences, Society | Tagged Ethics, Genomics

A Colosseum for students

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After having acted as the village for the 2020 Youth Olympic Games, Vortex will provide housing for nearly 1,000 students and academic visitors.

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Posted in Allez savoir, UNIL news | Tagged Student housing

Germaine and Benjamin, the enfants terribles of the French Enlightenment

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Benjamin Constant and Germaine de Staël

As committed intellectuals, Germaine de Staël and Benjamin Constant provide us with an interesting insight into a turbulent period of Europe’s history at the turn of the nineteenth century. And their fight for liberty remains highly topical today.

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Posted in Allez savoir, Literature | Tagged Benjamin Constant, Germaine de Staël

And what if money no longer existed tomorrow?

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Cash

With one of its tasks being precisely that of issuing money, the Swiss National Bank will soon be putting the new 20 franc note into circulation. But is it appropriate to launch such denominations when fewer and fewer payments are being made in cash?

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Posted in Allez savoir, Business, Society | Tagged Money

Love and power in the land of the Soviets

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Nadezhda Krupskaya

In her book “Une histoire érotique du Kremlin”? (An Erotic History of the Kremlin), researcher Magali Delaloye retraces the life of women who gravitated to the heart of Bolshevism. Campaigner for free love, adored daughter, self-effacing, trapped or voluntarily exiled wife: what path did these women tread alongside Lenin or Stalin?

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Posted in Allez savoir, History, Society | Tagged Gender, Russia

Laws for robots must come soon

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Siri, Aido, Roxxxy: whether machines with augmented intelligence or automatons, robots range from lawn mower to adviser and friend. While these gifted machines have not yet overtaken science fiction, they are coming close to it. Before they start laying down the law, isn’t it time to give them a legal framework? Sylvain Métille, specialist in law relating to data protection and new technologies, says it is.

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Posted in Allez savoir, Society | Tagged Law, Robots

We create 1500 new neurons every day

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Even in adult brains, new neurons are continually forming. Over our lifetime, we renew 80% of the cells in the area of the hippocampus, a crucial structure for learning and memory. A team at UNIL has uncovered some of the secrets of this process of neurogenesis, with the added bonus of potential therapeutic applications, notably for Alzheimer’s disease.

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Posted in Allez savoir, Medicine | Tagged Brain

“Breaking Bad” TV series drug hits Switzerland

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Breaking Bad: Walter White

Popularised by the TV series, methamphetamine has insidiously taken hold in Switzerland. Once known as the poor man’s cocaine, the drug now sells for 500 francs a gram. UNIL investigates this phenomenon and the threat it poses.

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Posted in Allez savoir, Society | Tagged Drugs

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