The first edition of OncoLille Days congress took place from November 2th to 4th, 2022 in Lille. All 3 days were very rich in interesting presentations about interdisciplinary research in oncology, including biology, mathematics, human sciences, etc. Our project leader Véronique De Conto was pleased to present her poster about Read more…
This is the end of the 6-month internship of Natacha in HCS Pharma, about the microenvironment modifications in Parkinson’s disease. Indeed, in vivo studies in the literature showed that the neuronal death in Parkinson’s disease involved Extracellular Matrix (ECM) modifications, including an increase in some components like collagen and a Read more…
Next month, we will have the pleasure to participate in the 23rd EUSAAT (EUropean Society for Alternative to Animal Testing) congress, which will take place in Linz (Austria) on the 26th-28th of September. We have proposed an abstract about how we use 3D in vitro cell culture models for recapitulating Read more…
In 2020, Nia et al. published in the journal Science a review entitled ‘Physical traits of cancer‘. In this article, the authors proposed 4 distinct physical traits of cancer linked to the biomechanical abnormalities observed in tumoral tissues : an enhanced solid stress (compression and tension), i.e. the mechanical forces Read more…