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Press releases - 13.02.2013
The efficacy of certain anti-cancer vaccines depends on how they are administered
The therapeutic efficacy of certain anti-cancer vaccines depends on how they are administered. This is what the team of researchers headed by Eric Tartour at the Paris-Centre de recherche Cardiovasculaire (Université Paris Descartes, INSERM Unit 970 PARCC, AP-HP), in collaboration with researchers from the CNRS , have just demonstrated.
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Press releases - 13.02.2013
“Simplified” brain lets the iCub robot learn language
The iCub humanoid robot on which the team directed by Peter Ford Dominey, CNRS Director of Research at Inserm Unit 846 known as the “Institut pour les cellules souches et cerveau de Lyon” [Lyon Institute for Stem Cell and Brain Research] (Inserm, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1) has been working for many years will now be able to understand what is being said to it and even anticipate the end of a sentence. This technological prowess was made possible by the development of a “simplified artificial brain” that reproduces certain types of so-called “recurrent” connections observed in the human brain.
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What's on? - 12.02.2013
The development of mortality due to pleural mesothelioma in France
The French health watch institute (InVS) worked in partnership with the Inserm unit “Epidemiological Center for Mortality by Medical Causes” to publish the results of models they had produced showing the development of mortality due to pleural mesothelioma in France, based on the latest data available in France. Models had been produced at the end […]
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Press releases - 11.02.2013
Cancer du col de l’utérus : première résolution 3D d’une oncoprotéine du virus à papillome humain
Des chercheurs strasbourgeois du laboratoire Biotechnologie et signalisation cellulaire de l’École Supérieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg (CNRS/Université de Strasbourg) et de l’Institut de génétique et de biologie moléculaire et cellulaire (CNRS/Université de Strasbourg/Inserm) ont résolu, pour la première fois, la structure tridimensionnelle d’une oncoprotéine majeure, impliquée dans la prolifération cellulaire et à l’origine du développement du papillomavirus humain. Celui-ci, de type 16 (HPV 16), est le plus dangereux de ces virus, responsable des cancers du col de l’utérus. Ces travaux, publiés le 8 février 2013 dans Science, devraient permettre l’identification et l’amélioration de médicaments bloquant les activités tumorigènes de la protéine.
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Press releases - 07.02.2013
Treatrush (TreatRetUsher): combating Usher Syndrome blindness – European collaboration in the service of a rare disease
Comment la recherche sur le syndrome de Usher – handicap héréditaire particulièrement invalidant, portant atteinte aux deux sens majeurs, l’audition et la vision – a-t-elle franchi une étape majeure dans la compréhension des mécanismes à l’origine de la rétinopathie pigmentaire ? Comment est-elle parvenue à améliorer le diagnostic clinique et à développer le diagnostic moléculaire ? Comment prépare-t-elle les essais de thérapie génique de la rétinopathie du syndrome ? Les scientifiques regroupés au sein du projet européen TREATRUSH (TreatRetUsher) présentent les avancées qu’ils ont réalisées. Douze partenaires de 7 pays sont réunis au sein de ce réseau financé par la Commission Européenne et coordonné par l’Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC).
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Press releases - 07.02.2013
‘Diet’ drinks associated with increased risk of Type II diabetes
Françoise Clavel-Chapelon, (Director of Research at INSERM-University of Paris-Sud 11, at the Institut Gustave Roussy), and Guy Fagherazzi were interested in a connection between the consumption of ‘diet’ or ‘light’ soft drinks and the risk of Type II diabetes. The analysis performed on 66,188 women in the E3N cohort confirms a link between sweet soft drinks and type II diabetes and reveals for the first time in France that, contrary to received wisdom, there is a higher risk of diabetes from so-called ‘diet’ or ‘light’ drinks than from ‘normal’ sweetened soft drinks.
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News in brief - 06.02.2013
A mother’s exposure to atmospheric pollution results in a risk of her baby having low birth weight
© AdobeStock An international study coordinated by Professor Tracey Woodruff of the University of San Francisco reveals that mothers exposed to atmospheric pollution due to particles in suspension in the air (vehicle emissions, city central heating systems and coal-burning power stations) presented with a higher risk of bearing babies with a low birth weight. This […]
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What's on? - 06.02.2013
Reducing risks among drug users
In order to limit the health risks associated with the use of drugs, certain countries have set up supervised injection centres where drug addicts can inject under the supervision of qualified personnel. In 2010, the French General Health Administration asked Inserm to perform a collective report on the theme of Reducing the risks in drug […]
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What's on? - 05.02.2013
17th national suicide prevention days
For the 16th National Suicide Prevention Days, if you want to find out more about suicide-related mortality in France, Inserm’s researchers can answer your questions. [break]Photo:
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What's on? - 04.02.2013
Maternal mortality, infant mortality, what are the figures?
Following a foetal death in utero last weekend, the Inserm Press Department has provided figures about maternal, infant and in utero mortality. The 2010 nationwide perinatal survey , set up notably by Inserm and the DGS, gives a description of the state of health of the children, the health care given and the characteristics of the […]