Typologie d'actualités: Group Skin biology

Septuce Zin, a PhD student at the CBM, has completed a parabolic flight aboard the A310 ZERO-G!

During the week of 14 April 2025, Septuce Zin, a PhD student in the CBM's ‘Skin Biology and Microenvironment’ team, took part in a parabolic flight campaign with GREMI scientists. The subject of his thesis is innovative atmospheric cold plasma therapy for the healing of acute wounds in space. During this parabolic flight campaign, on board the A310 ZERO-G operated Novespace, a subsidiary of the French space agency CNES, skin cells were exposed to different phases of weightlessness in order to study the effect of microgravity on these cells.

See the video of the flight on LinkedIn

Septuce Zin (first left) and the GREMI team ready to board the A310 ZERO-G

New models to predict and study the effects of cosmetic compounds

Evaluating the activity of compounds on the skin and understanding their mechanisms of action have become unavoidable steps to select and develop a dermocosmetic product. Since the ban on the use of animals in the cosmetic field, many "models" have been  developed, especially with recent advances in research in skin biology and computer science.

The book "Modèles pour l'évaluation des produits cosmétiques, de la molécule à l'humain", coordinated by Catherine Grillon, Leader of the Skin Biology Group at CBM, and Marek Haftek of the Laboratory of Tissue Biology and Therapeutic Engineering de Lyon, gives an overview of all the models used to evaluate the activity of dermocosmetic compounds, with their advantages, disadvantages and limitations. This book, edited by Cosmetic Valley Editions, brings together academic and industrial researchers, all specialists in their field, ranging from in silico prediction to in vivo evaluations, to all in vitro cell models, from the simplest to the most complex.