Understand the CNRS ... who turns 70 years!

[Christophe]

Fallen by chance on this article: http://sciences.blogs.liberation.fr/hom ... enir-.html
which allows to better understand the Cnrs and more generally public research in France!

Have not reached the end yet

[Christophe]

A recent research and econological CNRS: soil remediation, a mushroom that eats chemical pollution (aromatics and whatnot)

After a few decades of intensive agriculture, research to purge our soils of many industrial substances is well underway. A promising solution is coming today ... from a common filamentous fungus, Podospora anserina. The result of a collaboration between three 1 laboratories associated with the CNRS, a study published in May2 proves that Podospora anserina is indeed able to "digest" polluting molecules by modifying them chemically thanks to one of its enzymes. Result: where another living species would have succumbed, the fungus assimilates the pollutant and transforms it into another harmless compound. And the environment is sanitized.

Suite: http://www2.cnrs.fr/presse/journal/4506.htm