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Brain drain: how to benefit from expatriates skills?

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December 1996

One of the main obstacles to scientific and technological development of countries from the South is the so called brain drain.

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On the trail of the ebola virus

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December 1996

The first epidemics caused by Filoviruses-Ebola and Marburg-arose in the late 1970s, when this virus family had just been described.

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Tropical Africa : the drought gains ground

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November 1996

Since the end of the 1960s, the Sahel regions have been suffering from a drought linked to a substantial decrease in rainfall.

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Cyanobacteria in atoll lagoons

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October 1996

Atolls are rings of coral enclosing a lagoon which can be of various depths.

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Discovery of an ancestral metabolism in procaryotes

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October 1996

In 1991 research scientists from the Anaerobics Microbiology laboratory of ORSTOM (French National Scientific Research Institute for Development through Cooperation) at Marseille investigated the microbial ecology of oil fields, as part of a joint project with Elf Aquitaine Research on oil wells ...

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