- 2012
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News in brief - 04.12.2012
The “still, small voice” in the brain has been found!
A collaborative effort between the INSERM researchers at the Lyon Centre de Recherche en Neurosciences and the Grenoble C.H.U. has just shown that our brains can react as if we were hearing someone talking to us even though no one else is in the room. The research has been published in The Journal of Neuroscience. […]
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What's on? - 03.12.2012
The Telethon: to take place on 7 and 8 December 2012 with the help of Inserm researchers
“Oser vaincre” (Dare to win) is the slogan for the Telethon 2012 campaign that will start on December 7 and 8. Three million people in France are affected by 6,000 different rare diseases. These diseases, mostly genetic and disabling, had remained largely unknown for a long time. The aim of the Telethon is to put […]
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Press releases - 03.12.2012
Improving chemotherapy effectiveness by acting on the immune system
An Inserm team in Dijon directed by François Ghiringhelli (Inserm unit 866 ‘Lipids, nutrition and cancer’) is to publish an article this week in the Nature Medicine review. The article suggests that two chemotherapy drugs frequently used to treat digestive and breast cancers may encourage the development of tumours by modulating the anti-tumoural immune response.
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Press releases - 30.11.2012
November 30th 2012
Sorry, this article is only available in French.
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What's on? - 30.11.2012
1 December: World AIDS Day
What research progress has been made? According to the WHO, 34 million people are currently infected by HIV. Only 1.3 million patients from poor countries have access to treatment and there are 6,800 new cases of HIV each day. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) attacks the cells in the immune system, either destroying them or […]
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Press releases - 29.11.2012
The radical restructuring of brain networks in comatose patients
(French) Des chercheurs de l’Inserm, du CNRS et de l’Université Joseph Fourier à Grenoble, en collaboration avec des cliniciens du CHU de Strasbourg, ont analysé les données de 17 patients dans le coma à partir des données d’IRM fonctionnelle. Ils ont pu mettre en évidence, chez ces patients, une réorganisation des réseaux cérébraux.
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Press releases - 29.11.2012
Intestinal bacteria an aggravating factor in obesity-related illnesses
Les bactéries de l’intestin sont responsables du développement des complications métaboliques du foie associés à l’obésité. Pour la première fois, des chercheurs établissent ce lien de causalité grâce à des transplantations de bactéries intestinales chez des souris
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Press releases - 29.11.2012
November 29th 2012
Sorry, this article is only available in French.
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What's on? - 28.11.2012
Phone or drive? Soon you’ll have to make the choice
The French Minister of Home Affairs, Manuel Valls, set up the new National Road Safety Policy on 27 November. It is to be chaired by the Socialist Party Deputy of the Bas-Rhin, Mr. Armand Jung. This “road safety parliament” so to speak will be responsible for making suggestions to the Government on how to combat […]
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Press releases - 28.11.2012
November 28th 2012
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