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Discovered in the late 1970s, archaea are unicellular organisms with characteristics of both bacteria and more complex organisms. Once shunned, advances in molecular biology and genomics have brought them back into the spotlight. Numerous studies are...

Researchers and engineers in the “Dynamique Interne des Biomolécules” (DynaBio) teamr of the Laboratoire d'Optique et Biosciences (LOB) are specialists in the study of fundamental biological processes at the molecular level, using ultrafast pump-probe...

An international consortium of researchers from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Canada, Spain, Italy and France (at École polytechnique / LOB ) has been investigating the long-standing question of the stability of the unusual "i-motif" nucleic...

A team from the Laboratory for Optics and Biosciences (LOB) has obtained proof-of-principle for the classification of kidney stones using multi-photon microscopy combined with polarimetry. This optical method, which has been published in the journal ACS...

Obtaining precise information on the structure of the cornea is essential to understanding its ability to guarantee high visual acuity. An original approach has been developed combining SHG microscopy and polarimetry to image the lamellar microstructure...