- 2015
- Press releases - 03.08.2015
From pluripotency to totipotency
researchers from Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla’s team have pushed the limits of science even further. They managed to obtain totipotent cells with the same characteristics as those of the earliest embryonic stages and with even more interesting properties.
- Press releases - 30.07.2015
An advance in understanding the origins of language
Researchers from the Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit at NeuroSpin have just identified a network of areas of the brain that are organised in a way that could at least partially explain the specificity of the cognitive functions in the human species.
- Press releases - 17.07.2015
Diabetes is associated with neurocognitive disorders in people living with HIV
Researchers at Inserm Unit 897, “Epidemiology and Biostatistics Inserm Research Centre” (Inserm/University of Bordeaux) and the CIC-1401 Clinical Investigation Centre, in collaboration with Bordeaux University Hospital, have shown for the first time that there is a relationship between diabetes and neurocognitive disorders in people living with HIV, regardless of age.
- News in brief - 17.07.2015
Coffee colour…
Birthmarks, café au lait spots—although usually harmless (over 10% of the population has one or two), the presence of more than 5 of them in a child can conceal a hereditary disease, neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). This is one of the most common genetic diseases (affecting 1 in 3,000 individuals). Until now, the molecular mechanisms associated […]
- News in brief - 10.07.2015
Septicaemia: the kidney protected by white blood cells
Septicaemia is a general inflammatory reaction secondary to an infection. Bacteria discharge into the blood, leading to fever, an increased heart rate, a drop in blood pressure, an increased breathing rate, and a pronounced fatigue of the body. Septicaemia is associated with significant mortality as it effects all of the organs. In France, it is […]
- Press releases - 09.07.2015
One in every two people bring back multi-resistant enterobacteria after a trip in a tropical zone
A large-scale collaborative study revealed the acquisition of multi-resistant enterobacteria (MRE) in one in two travellers returning from a stay in a country situated in a tropical region.
- Press releases - 08.07.2015
Production of iPS cells: discovery of the 5th element
Two teams of researchers from Inserm, CNRS, Centre Léon Bérard and Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University have discovered a molecule that may favour the production of these induced stem cells.
- Press releases - 07.07.2015
Vaccines: practices and hesitancy among general physicians in France
At population level, vaccines contribute to reducing mortality associated with infectious diseases such as measles, diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis B or bacterial meningitis. The community general physician, at the centre of this preventive strategy, remains the main source of information for families. In an article published in the journal Ebiomedecine, Pierre Verger (Inserm Unit 912, “Economics and Social Sciences Applied to Health and Analysis of Medical Information – SESSTIM”) and his collaborators present and analyse the attitudes and practices of over 1,500 general physicians in France, in a context of distrust toward vaccines.
- Press releases - 03.07.2015
Climate change and health: what are the implications?
To present the state of the art on the knowledge regarding the impact of climate change on health, and future research in this area, Aviesan (the French National Alliance for Life and Health Sciences) and Inserm (the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research) are organising a mini-symposium in conjunction with the UNESCO conference.
- Press releases - 29.06.2015
Heatwave 2015: Be careful of the abnormally high death rate
These remarkably high temperatures (around 40 °C) can have particularly harmful consequences on the health.