Research in dentistry will continue through the work of young researchers already begun in the past year, and which will continue around the painful body in a qualitative and ethical perspective.
Projects
The ethics researchers intend to continue their research on the observation of the diversity of procedures for informing relatives in Europe, in the field of rare diseases.
This inter-team project will focus on a specific case where the patient's body is treated using the resources of another's body. In this case, the body is no longer simply the receptacle of treatments but becomes itself a means of treatment available to patients in a life-threatening situation (leukemia, sickle cell disease, etc.).
In the event of death, other social norms unfold because respect for the body does not disappear with death. The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has given an insight into the cultural invariants in the respect due to the body of the deceased. The duty of decency that the living recognize towards the cadaveric body is imposed even when the person has donated his or her body to science, within a recently reinforced normative framework. During the next contract, the removal of elements from the cadaveric body at the request of the judicial authorities will be the subject of a renewed deontological approach through the digitization of forensic resources.
This project, led by Harilanto Razafindrazaka (PhD, CR CNRS), follows a tradition of the laboratory which is the study of the genetic diversity of the populations of the Indian Ocean including the Comoros and Madagascar.
One of the specificities of our species is its great cultural diversity which, in the same way as genes, is transmitted from generation to generation, which raises the question: how do cultural differences between human populations interact with their biological diversity and vice versa?
Given its medical implications, which will be seen elsewhere, and in the light of high-throughput genomic sequencing, this project proposes an expert re-reading of the molecular genetics of immunogenic polymorphisms (erythrocyte blood group systems and systems involved in the immune response) with a view to contributing both to the understanding of the history and evolution of modern humans and to the evolutionary history of these genes in order to outline their phylogeny.
Human beings and microbes have a permanent and double-edged relationship. In the intestinal flora they complement each other and in some cases these microorganisms cause infectious diseases in humans.