- 2014
- What's on? - 20.05.2014
Acquittal of Colmar GMO reapers
“An injustice to one is a threat to all,” to quote Montesquieu. Today, on behalf of the scientific community, we can only express our complete support for the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, the INRA, and our strong concern over the consequences of a court ruling made against it on 14 May last. The […]
- What's on? - 16.05.2014
Bone marrow cancer remission thanks to measles virus
Article published in the “Mayo Clinic Proceedings” journal describing complete remission of a 49-year old patient (after more than 6 months) suffering from bone marrow cancer following an injection of a strong dosage of the modified measles virus. The Mayo Clinic researchers have been using this to vaccinate 10 million people. Reach the scientific article Read the […]
- Press releases - 14.05.2014
Social inequalities in health linked to diet and physical activity
The experts’ analysis of data from recent international scientific literature was used to evaluate nutritional disparities based on individuals’ socio-economic standing. The social, cultural, economic and environmental factors involved in creating social inequalities in nutrition were analysed.
- What's on? - 13.05.2014
Heavy mobile telephone use and brain tumours
Findings from the study of mobile telephone use and the development of brain tumours have been published in the journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine The effect of electromagnetic radio frequencies on humans remains controversial. Researchers from Inserm Unit 897, “Epidemiology and Biostatistics” (ISPED) in Bordeaux, have analysed the association between exposure to mobile telephone radio frequencies […]
- Press releases - 13.05.2014
The pill crisis in France: towards a new contraceptive model?
By analysing the Fecond survey, conducted by Inserm and the French National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) several months later, Nathalie Bajos, Mylène Rouzaud-Cornabas, Henri Panjo, Aline Bohet and Caroline Moreau examined the recent trends in contraceptive practices, and the contribution of media debate to these changes.
- Press releases - 12.05.2014
Retired people continue to have cognitive impairment long after high occupational exposure to solvents
French researchers from Inserm Unit 1061, “Neuropsychiatry: Epidemiological and Clinical Research,” and their American colleagues at Harvard have just shown that retired people continued to be affected by their work with solvents in cases of high exposure.
- Press releases - 09.05.2014
A new type of heredity described in Paramecia
A team from the Institut de biologie at the Ecole normale supérieure (CNRS/ENS/INSERM)(2) has described how in Paramecia, mating types are transmitted from generation to generation through an unexpected mechanism.
- What's on? - 09.05.2014
Breakthrough: new letters in the alphabet of life
In an article published yesterday in the journal Nature, an American team led by Floyd Romesberg (Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California) explains how it succeeded in integrating two new DNA bases into the genetic code of a bacterium. Their breakthrough is that the bacterium retains these genetic modifications during replication. To comment this findings, contact […]
- News in brief - 07.05.2014
Using “good cholesterol” as a therapeutic vector for treating the lungs
One of the major challenges for therapeutic science is to optimise the accurate distribution of drugs in the affected organs. Targeted delivery methods are needed to accomplish this. In a new study published in The American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, Olivier Meilhac’s team (Inserm Unit 1148, the “Laboratory for Vascular Translational Science,” […]
- Press releases - 30.04.2014
Metastases: Tumour Cell Dissemination
Carine Rossé, INSERM research fellow and Philippe Chavrier, Research Director at CNRS, working alongside Dr. Anne Vincent-Salomon, medical researcher at the Institut Curie, have recently discovered one of the mechanisms that allow triple negative breast cancer cells to exit the mammary gland.