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Interested in testing the health benefits of plant...

The CICN platform is performing several studies and is looking for volunteers to test the effectiveness of plant combinations on : sleep disorders (valerian/California poppy) slow intestinal transit (kiwi/peony/magnolia/prebiotic) mood disorders (rhodiola/saffron) Study on sleep...
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Data manipulation and visualisation with R

In March, the technology platforms SMCS and BIOINFO are organizing a training session in collaboration with the aim of initiating wet-lab scientists to reproducible data analysis in R for high troughtput biological data.   Interested ?   It's time to register !  
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What if we built floors out of logs?

Martin Steinmetz and Justin Goosse, researchers at UCLouvain, built at the Mechanical Testing, Structures and Civil Engineering Laboratory (LEMSC) a timber floor with birch trunks provided by the forest ranger of the Bois de Lauzelle, Thibaut Thyrion. The objective is to understand the...
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"XR": the MiiL participated in the inauguration of the...

The “x-tended reality” also called XR is growing incredibly fast. A trend initiated by the world of video games, its technologies and its uses. From digital to "phygital" (contraction of "physical" and "digital"), we are living a new stage of the digital era. The virtual and physical worlds...
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LEMSC : a prototype footbridge built with tensegrity

In tensegrity structures, compressed bars appear to float within tensioned cables. The human body, composed of bones and muscles, is one of the most beautiful examples. Tensegrity structures have been studied extensively for decades, and some people attribute remarkable structural properties...
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