- 2015
- What's on? - 22.01.2015
Influenza: France crosses epidemic threshold
According to the weekly bulletin of the Sentinelles network, the incidence of influenza crossed the epidemic threshold last week, with 231 cases detected in general practice per 100,000 inhabitants. A figure that exceeds the epidemic threshold (179 cases per 100,000 inhabitants). At regional level, the highest rates of incidence were found in: Limousin, Auvergne and […]
- Press releases - 19.01.2015
Elucidating the origin of MDR tuberculosis strains
A study has focused on the evolutionary history of the mycobacterium that causes tuberculosis, and more specifically on the Beijing lineage associated with the spread of multidrug resistant forms of the disease in Eurasia.
- News in brief - 19.01.2015
Segmented filamentous bacteria, partners in intestinal immunity, finally cultured in vitro !
Segmented filamentous bacteria (SFB) are bacteria from the Clostridiaceae family that colonize the intestines of many species, likely including humans, without causing disease; they live in symbiosis with epithelial cells and are involved in the maturation of intestinal immunity. Despite the vital role of SFB in establishing gut immune homeostasis in vivo in mice, scientists, […]
- Press releases - 19.01.2015
A new MOOC invites the general public to discover a stem cell culture laboratory
University of Nantes, Inserm and Thinkovery have joined forces to produce a new kind of MOOC (Massive Open Online Course).
- Press releases - 16.01.2015
Stem cell therapy for heart failure: first implant of cardiac cells derived from human embryonic stem cells
On the 21 October 2014, Professor Philippe Menasché and his team from the cardiovascular surgery service of the Georges Pompidou European Hospital, AP-HP, carried out a transplant of cardiac cells derived from human embryonic stem cells
- Press releases - 16.01.2015
Inserm is launching a development programme for a new generation vaccine strategy against the Ebola virus
A clinical trial project, coordinated by Inserm, involving the testing of a preventive vaccine against Ebola has been selected by the European Commission.
- Press releases - 16.01.2015
The biological basis of good health
In a biological sense, what does it mean to be “in good health”? This far-reaching question is the focus of the “Laboratoire d’Excellence” project Milieu Intérieur (“Environment Within”)
- Press releases - 15.01.2015
Bisphenol A: Alternative products that may also be harmful
Bisphenol F and bisphenol S, which are used as substitutes for bisphenol A in certain applications, have the same negative effect on human foetal testes as bisphenol A. This has recently been shown by René Habert and his colleagues at the Joint Research Unit 967 “Stem Cells, Radiation and Genetic Instability”
- Press releases - 08.01.2015
Suicide rate and increased unemployment
A study conducted by Inserm’s Centre for Epidemiology on Medical Causes of Death (CépiDc) and the Paris public hospital system (AP-HP) highlights an association between suicide rate and unemployment in metropolitan France between 2000 and 2010.
- What's on? - 08.01.2015
Suicide rate and increased unemployment
A study conducted by Inserm’s Centre for Epidemiology on Medical Causes of Death (CépiDc) and the Paris public hospital system (AP-HP) highlights an association between suicide rate and unemployment in metropolitan France between 2000 and 2010. The statistical model actually reveals a mean 1.5% increase in suicide rate, both sexes combined, for a 10% increase […]