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About Margaux
Margaux’s early interest in health and how drugs work led her to a degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences. She’s currently pursuing a PhD using computational tools to design new drugs and study structural biology. She soon realised while practicing as a pharmacist how important science communication is when health professionals communicate with their patients, as this can have a significant impact on how they perceive and follow their treatment. She thinks Science provides an infinite source of wonder, and aims at sparking curiosity for interesting scientific stories thanks to breakers.
Margaux is the editor of 25 Breaks:
Gas in distant galaxies: mixed or matched?
Gas is an essential ingredient of galaxies because it fuels star and planet formation. Studying this gas is important because it tells us how galaxies form, evolve, and interact with their environment. In this work we studied 64 small, distant galaxies and found that the gas is not well-mixed which tells us how it is moving in, out and around the galaxies.
Nov 22, 2023 | 3 min readWriting cell memory: how Histones play a role in Epigenetic Memory
Our cells remember their cell type-specific functions during their lifetime using modifications on histones, the proteins packaging DNA. Such epigenetic memory is challenged during DNA replication when histones are evicted from DNA. We reveal new evidence that cells recycle histones H2A-H2B to replicated DNA with their modifications, hereby providing epigenetic memory across cell division.
Oct 4, 2023 | 4 min readThe fate of a century-old partnership between humans and dolphins
Aligning human interests and wildlife protection requires a deep understanding of human-wildlife interactions. Behavioral tracking and demographic surveys show that foraging synchrony is key to generate short- and long-term benefits for human fishers and wild dolphins. We used simulations to describe the conditions under which this cooperation can turn into another human-wildlife conflict.
Sep 4, 2023 | 4 min readSharing a political ideology predicts more similar brain activity
Even when presented with the same information, liberals and conservatives tend to interpret political information differently. By measuring brain activity while partisans watched political videos or thought about political concepts, we show that individuals that are similar in their political beliefs exhibit similar brain patterns whilst processing political information.
Sep 1, 2023 | 3.5 min readThe diurnal habits of a long-gone Tibetan Owl
Owl’s nocturnal habits stand out from most birds, and in various cultures they are associated with wisdom or even the magical world of Harry Potter. We describe here a unique fossil of an extinct owl species that was instead active during the day. This species links to some of the few daytime active owls and fills in a six-million-year gap in their evolutionary history.
Aug 18, 2023 | 3.5 min readMathematical modeling and tumor avatars: What’s the link?
We introduce a new approach for designing personalized treatment for colorectal cancer patients, by combining patient-derived samples and mathematical modeling. This unique strategy is tailored specifically to individual patients, as we go from bench to bedside and back.
Aug 16, 2023 | 3 min read