- 2015
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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).
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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
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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.
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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”)
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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”
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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.
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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 […]
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Press releases - 07.01.2015
Huntington’s disease: therapeutic potential of triheptanoin confirmed
A team of researchers from Inserm led by Fanny Mochel and located at the Brain and Spinal Cord Institute (Inserm/CNRS/UPMC/AP-HP) has just demonstrated the therapeutic potential of triheptanoin in ten patients with Huntington’s disease.
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News in brief - 07.01.2015
Resident and recruited macrophages orchestrate the liver’s defense against infection
Macrophages are key cells of the innate immune system. By capturing and ingesting microbes in a process known as phagocytosis, they play an important role in defending host tissues against infection. There are two types of macrophage: tissue-resident macrophages, and bone marrow monocytes that circulate in the bloodstream and are recruited in tissues during infection […]
- 2014
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Press releases - 19.12.2014
Gastroenteritis for holiday season
In metropolitan France last week, the incidence rate for cases of acute diarrhoea seen in general practice was estimated at 253 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, i.e. 160,000 new cases, higher than the previous week, and just below the epidemic threshold (269 cases per 100,000 inhabitants).