- 2014
- Press releases - 09.10.2014
October 11th 2014: National “Dys” Day
National “Dys” Day, held on 11 October, has for the last 8 years been enlisting the non-profit organisations to raise awareness about problems related to an individual cognitive dysfunctionwithout an overall intellectual deficiency.
- Press releases - 09.10.2014
Bubble Babies: a new gene therapy
9 children with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency have received a new form of gene therapy.
- What's on? - 09.10.2014
Bubble Babies: a new gene therapy
9 children with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency have received a new form of gene therapy. Alain Fischer, Marina Cavazzana-Calvo and Salima Hacein-Bey-Abina, together with their teams at Inserm Unit 1163 and AP-HP, have just published these results in the New England Journal of Medicine. In 1999, these researchers pioneered the treatment by gene therapy of […]
- Press releases - 09.10.2014
Colon cancer: Two genetic alterations that generate metastases
With approximately 42,000 estimated new cases in France in 2012, colon cancer is, for both sexes combined, the third most common type of cancer, and the second most common cause of cancer deaths after lung cancer.
- Press releases - 08.10.2014
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014
The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to two Americans, Eric Betzig and William Moerner, and a German, Stefan Hell
- What's on? - 08.10.2014
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014
The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to two Americans, Eric Betzig and William Moerner, and a German, Stefan Hell, on Wednesday 8 October “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy,” nanoscopy, as the jury said in its press release. The laureates developed two methods enabling microscopy on a nanometric scale, and hence the […]
- Press releases - 07.10.2014
Anorexia / bulimia: a bacterial protein implicated
Eating disorders (ED) such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and binge eating disorder affect approximately 5-10% of the general population, but the biological mechanisms involved are unknown. Researchers at Inserm Unit 1073, “Nutrition, inflammation and dysfunction of the gut-brain axis” (Inserm/University of Rouen) have demonstrated the involvement of a protein produced by some intestinal bacteria that may be the source of these disorders.
- Press releases - 07.10.2014
October 9th 2014 : World Sight Day
World Sight Day, which is held on 9 October each year, is aimed at raising public awareness of problems related to blindness and visual impairment.
- Press releases - 06.10.2014
Cystic fibrosis: how a bacterium manipulates its host to eradicate an opponent
La principale cause de mortalité chez les patients atteints de mucoviscidose est l’infection des poumons par différentes populations de bactéries qui varient en fonction de l’âge.
- Press releases - 06.10.2014
Nobel Prize in medicine 2014
Nobel prize 2014 in physiology and medicine is awarded to John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser