Abstract: The present invention concerns an injection method for injecting a substance into eggs, and an injection head for implementing said method. The method generally includes piercing the shell and at least the shell membrane of an egg by moving a needle, and then injecting the treatment substance via said needle, said piercing step comprising a first movement of the needle to pierce the shell with a first penetration force and then a second movement of the needle to pierce at least the shell membrane with a second penetration force lower than the first penetration force.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of at least one compound of formula (I) or (II), in which R1 is H and n is an integer from 2 to 10, for the preparation of a medicament for treating diseases chosen from the group comprising tumour, cancer, viral disease, bacterial disease, fungal disease, disease of the immune system, auto-immune disease or disease linked to a deficiency in immunostimulation, in human beings and warm-blooded animals. The invention also relates to new products having a mannose or mannitol termination as well as a method for preparing them.

Abstract: The invention relates to an automated method for positioning eggs on a tray that comprises the automated detection of the presence/absence of eggs in the cells of a tray, and the picking-up of eggs from a supply and the placement thereof in the empty cells of a tray. The invention also relates to a system or positioning eggs on a stabilizing tray, the tray including evenly distributed cells in which the eggs are placed, one or more cells being likely not to contain eggs, this information being stored in an information processing unit, wherein said system includes a means in the form of a robot having an egg pick-up head that are driven by the information processing unit in order to pick up eggs from a supply tray and to place them in the empty cells of the stabilizing tray.

Abstract: An injector for injecting at least one substance into eggs, comprising an injection body that can be moved between a raised position and an injection position, and equipped with an injection conduit, an injection needle, a guiding and protection tube of the needle subject to elastic stress by elastic means to an idle position and capable of being moved towards a retracted position by pressing its distal end against an egg when the injector is in the injection position. The injector is equipped with control means for controlling the supply of said injection conduit with at least one substance, said tube cooperating with said control means to disable the supply of said injection conduit when said tube is in the idle position and to enable the supply of said conduit when said tube is in the retracted position.

Abstract: The invention concerns the use for treating and cleaning the eye and its appendages of aqueous ionic solutions obtained from sea water whereof the ionic composition is qualitatively that of sea water and quantitatively such that their pH ranges between 4 and 9, preferably between 7 and 8 and their osmolality ranges between 150 and 700, preferably between 250 and 350 mOsm/kg.

Abstract: Chemotherapeutic antineoplastic method comprising administration of an effective amount of an antineoplastic agent in conjunction with an effective amount of a ?-1,3 glucan.

Abstract: The invention concerns the use of a sulphated or phosphated polysaccharide for preparing a drug for treating herpes virus mediated diseases, more particularly mediated by alpha-herpes viruses, and in particular by HSV-1 and HSV-2, as well as by strains of those viruses which are resistant to known antiviral agents. The polysaccharide is preferably sulphated laminarin PS3.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of laminarine as food ingredient.

Abstract: A living animals conveying device for sorting animals with respect to a characteristic such as color, size, gender, or weight. In the case of chicks, an embodiment of the invention includes a section for conveying chicks with chicks positioned in buckets with their wings spread out, and an automatic chicks sexing system. A first endless bucket conveyor comprising pre-positioning buckets able to individually receive and transport a living animal, is oriented with respect to a second endless bucket conveyor, comprising sorting buckets able to individually receive and transport a living animal, the first conveyor and the second conveyor being arranged in such a way that each pre-positioned living animal in a pre-positioning bucket falls from the pre-positioning bucket into a sorting bucket arranged below the pre-positioning bucket.

Abstract: This invention relates to the use of a sulphated or phosphated polysaccharide for the preparation of a medicine for treatments against retroviruses, more particularly against lentiviruses and oncoviruses, and particularly against HIV, including strains of these retroviruses that are resistant to known anti-retroviral agents; this medicine acts on the replication cycle of said retroviruses by inhibition of their RT.

Abstract: The invention relates Lo the use of laminarine, preferably in the soluble form thereof or an oligolaminarine, for the production of a medicament for treatment of septicemia and septic shock.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of xanthan oligomers, preferably with a degree of polymerisation of between 1 and 30, in methods for the stimulation of the natural defences of plants, e.g. monocotyledones and, in particular, cereals or, more specifically, wheat and dicotyledones of, for example, vines, tobacco, potatoes and tomatoes.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of an aqueous ionic solution for rinsing contact lenses, particularly contact lenses made of hydrophilic materials. Said aqueous ionic solution is produced from sea water, has an ionic composition that is of the same quality as that of sea water, and the quality of which is such that said aqueous ionic solution has a pH of 4 to 9, preferably 7 to 8, and an osmolality of 150 to 700 mOsm/kg, preferably 250 to 350 mOsm/kg.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions and methods for treating humans and warm-blood animals suffering from cancer. More particularly, a therapeutical treatment in which a monoclonal antibody is administered with either ?-(1,3)-glucan like laminarin or a oligo-?-(1,3)-glucan and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, to patients suffering from cancer are described.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for preparing free polyunsaturated fatty acids and their oxidation metabolites, wherein, successively, the production of polyunsaturated fatty acids and of their oxidation metabolites is stimulated, in a red alga, by the action of an elicitor which is peptide, lipid or saccharide in nature, and then the polyunsaturated fatty acids produced and also their oxidation metabolites are extracted.

Abstract: The invention concerns the use for preparing a medicine for treating inflammatory diseases induced by non-specific inflammatory responses, that is antigen-independent, of a laminarin sulphate, having a degree of sulphation not less than 1.9 and preferably between 2 and 2.5 degree of polymerization identical to that of the natural molecule, that is 20 to 30.

Abstract: The invention concerns endofucanases suitable for preparing fuco-oligosaccharides by enzymatic hydrolysis of fucanes. It also concerns a bacterium producing endofucanases and the preparation of said enzyme from the bacterium. It further concerns endofucanase genes and it finally concerns the use said fuco-oligosaccharides for plant protection.

Abstract: The invention concerns the use for treating and cleaning the eye and its appendages of aqueous ionic solutions obtained from sea water whereof the ionic composition is qualitatively that of sea water and quantitatively such that their pH ranges between 4 and 9, preferably between 7 and 8 and their osmolality ranges between 150 and 700, preferably between 250 and 350 mOsm/kg.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the stimulation of the reactions of natural defence of agronomically useful and of decorative plants, characterized by the fact that there is applied on the plants to be treated an aqueous composition comprising an efficient concentration in sulfate of ? 1-3 glucan and more particularly a concentration of at least 1 mg/l, preferably of at least 5 mg/l, and still more preferably of at least 10 mg/l in laminarin sulfate, whose degree of sulfatation is higher than or equal to 1.9, preferably from 2 to 2.5, the said composition being applied to the culture or crop to be treated in an amount sufficient to provide per hectare an efficient amount of sulfate of ? 1-3 glucan, and in the case of laminarin sulfate in an amount sufficient to provide from 0.4 to 4 g of laminarin sulfate per hectare.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel method of chemically preparing functionalized derivatives of ?-(1,3)-glucans, enabling obtaining oligosaccharides which are free or which comprise specific groups such as, for example, sulphate, phosphate, methyl, in pre-defined positions. This method includes a reaction between a glycosyl donor of formula (Ia) or (Ib) and a glycosyl acceptor of formula (II), defined in the claims. Application: Preparation of biologically active compounds which can be used in the agricultural, cosmetic or pharmaceutical fields.