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New Study Links PFAS Exposure to Kidney Damage Through Gut Microbiome

🔬 A new study from Hailey E. Hampson et al. published in Science of the Total Environment reveals that exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) may impair kidney function, with the gut microbiome and metabolites playing a crucial role.

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Our Commitment to Standards Development

Our company is participating in the drafting of standards, including contributions to the V03B commission on “Horizontal Methods for the Analysis of Food Products” within the French AFNOR.

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AI in the spotlight in the Physics and Chemistry Nobel Prizes!

This year, figures in the development of AI, such as John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton in Physics, as well as Demis Hassabis, John Jumper, and David Baker in Chemistry, are celebrated for their outstanding contributions.

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Podcast - PFAS: investigation into eternal pollutants

TO LISTEN 🔈- A good summary of the PFAS issue with this podcast: their history, the cover-ups, the environmental and public health impacts… Behind this “revolution” lies a complex and unsavoury history…

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France Info and Radio France - A survey on tap water contamination with eternal pollutants

📍France Info has just published a map of PFAS contamination in 89 tap water samples taken in France. But the 20 molecules analyzed represent only the tip of the iceberg, a small fraction of the total number of existing compounds.

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ANSES scientific meeting on endocrine disruptors

On June 13, 2024, The French Governement Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety - ANSES and the French National Research Agency (ANR) organized the second scientific meeting on endocrine disruptors, entitled “2nd national strategy on endocrine disruptors: assessment and outlook”.

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PFAS pollution and NMR: a rapid and non-destructive diagnostic

In the context of ongoing PFAS crisis, CASC4DE proposes a quick NMR diagnosis to detect significant PFAS pollution by recognizing their distinctive NMR fingerprint.

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PFAS: The 'Forever Pollution' Project

This week multiple colorful maps have been published gathering and analysing available data on PFAS contamination. This has been initiated by a group of journalists interested in a cross-boarder project about:

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CASC4DE at the second and final End-User School of the EU FT-ICR MS Network

CASC4DE will attend the upcoming second and final End-User School organized by the EU FT-ICR MS Network in Lille from 12th to 16th December 2022.

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CIFRE PhD Defence - Laura Duciel

Today was the PhD defence of Laura Duciel. She arrived in October 2018 to work on her research project titled “Machine learning developments for the analysis of high resolution biophysical data-sets”.

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