- 2013
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What's on? - 29.01.2013
Same-gender parenting and child development
The systematic literature review was published in 2011: Same-gender parenting and child development: current known facts, co-signed by Guillaume Fond, mentions several therapeutic approaches to the question of same-gender parenting and its effect on children. Is being born into or growing up in a same-gender parent family a disadvantage? Is the risk of psychopathology or […]
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Press releases - 28.01.2013
Le Human Brain Project gagne la compétition du plus grand fonds scientifique européen
La Commission européenne a officiellement désigné le Human Brain Project (HBP) comme l’un de ses deux projets FET Flagship. Le HBP regroupera les scientifiques de tout le continent autour de l’un des plus grands défis de la science contemporaine: comprendre le cerveau humain.
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What's on? - 25.01.2013
Multi-drug resistant TB
At a time when the increase in the number of cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis in France is becoming “preoccupying on a public health scale” according to the French General Health Administration (DGS), Inserm is publishing the results of its latest research into tuberculosis. Tuberculosis: the discovery of a molecule in the immune system that is […]
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News in brief - 24.01.2013
How does the brain decide when one needs to take a break
To test this hypothesis, the researchers developed a test in which 39 participants were invited to squeeze their fists tightly in exchange for a payment proportional to the length of time during which they were able to perform this feat. The researchers used two brain imaging techniques to record the participants’ brain activity during the […]
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What's on? - 22.01.2013
A mercaptan gas leak at Rouen; the effects could be smelled as far as Paris
The foul smell that reached as far as Parisduring the night from Monday into Tuesday was caused by a leak in the Lubriziol chemical plant in Rouen. The leak released mercaptan, an olfactory marker of the type used to give a smell to natural gas supplies. Michel Aubier from Inserm research unit U700 “Physiopathology and […]
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Press releases - 22.01.2013
OpenViBE2 : A major French project involving Brain-Computer Interfaces applied to video games
OpenViBE2 (2009-2013) is a collaborative research project, supported by finance from the ANR, that is based on the potential of the technologies known as “brain-computer interfaces”(ico) in the field of video games.This is a project that has brought together the scientific expertise needed through a multi-disciplinary consortium consisting of nine partners – the university laboratories who pioneered the field (INRIA, INSERM, cea, GIPSA-Lab), well-known video-game manufacturers (ubisoft, blacksheep studio, kylotonn games) and specialists in usage and transfer (lutin, clarte).After three years of work and achieving numerous scientific advances associated with the development of innovative industry prototypes, OpenViBE2 has made it possible to have greater control over the future of such technologies on the French market as well as internationally.
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Press releases - 21.01.2013
The skin aging regulator
Despite progress in regenerative medicine, with age, the skin loses its properties in an irreversible manner. The ATIP-Avenir team “Epidermal homeostasis and tumorigenesis” directed by Chloé Féral, an Inserm researcher at the French Cancer and Aging Research Institute (Inserm/CNRS/Université Sophia Antipolis), has just defined the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in maintaining skin cells and skin healing in advanced years. These mechanisms, described in vivo in mice, engage molecule CD98hc, which is involved in epidermis renewal and could be an indicator of the skin’s capacity for regeneration.
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What's on? - 18.01.2013
20) Eating fast food could increase the risks of eczema and asthma
A study led by Pr. Innes Asher from theUniversityofAucklandin theUnited Stateshas just demonstrated that the food served in fast-food restaurants could be implicated in respiratory diseases and in severe chronic allergies such as allergic rhinitis, eczema or severe asthma. This study, that was published in the review Thorax, involved around 319,000 adolescents aged between 11 […]
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News in brief - 18.01.2013
“Small” and “big” dreamers: what is happening inside our brains?
It is currently impossible, using the resources available to researchers, to make this distinction. Yet the INSERM researchers of Unit 1028 “Centre de recherche en neuroscience de Lyon) have succeeded in developing a test that makes it possible to analyse brain activity in small and big dreamers and to draw a few conclusions. Their work […]
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Press releases - 18.01.2013
Inauguration of TherA-Image, imaging technology-assisted treatment platform
Imagine, in this hybrid operating theatre, surgeons, physicians and engineers surrounded by control screens, using enhanced and roboticised reality systems, enabling interventions that are even more accurate and safe. At the Signal and Image Processing Laboratory (University of Rennes 1 / Inserm), researchers, engineers and doctors at the Rennes CHU Cardio-pneumological Centre have been working together to bring the TherA-Image platform into existence.