- 2012
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Press releases - 01.02.2012
Serotonin and bones
Serotonin, a well-known brain neurotransmitter, is produced locally in an unexpected place: the bone tissue. This has just been demonstrated by research scientists from the Combined “Bone and joints” research unit 606 (Inserm/Paris Diderot) working jointly with the biochemistry laboratory from the Lariboisière Hospital and the “Cytokines, hematopoiesis and immune response” laboratory (CNRS/University of Paris […]
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Press releases - 31.01.2012
(French) Recherche sur les cancers : tout s’accélère
(French) À l’occasion de la journée mondiale contre le cancer, l’Association pour la Recherche sur le Cancer (ARC) l’Inserm et l’Institut national de cancer (INCa) présentent un web documentaire intitulé “Recherche sur les cancers : tout s’accélère”.
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Press releases - 27.01.2012
Biological time-keeper linked to diabetes
Sleeping disorders have been known for some years to increase the risk of diabetes.
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Press releases - 25.01.2012
GrippeNet.fr: a new Internet-based influenza monitoring system (www.grippenet.fr)
On January 25, 2012, a new influenza monitoring system known as GrippeNet.fr was launched jointly by the Sentinelles network team
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Press releases - 25.01.2012
Identification of a recurrent chromosomal anomaly in neural cells derived from pluripotent stem cells (ES and iPS)
At a time when the first regenerative medicine clinical trials are being performed using pluripotent stem cells, teams from the I-Stem Institute, directed by Marc Peschanski
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Press releases - 23.01.2012
Obesity: Does our second brain work too well?
Scientists from Inserm have just demonstrated how a high fat and sugar diet prevents the natural destruction of neurons from the enteric nervous system in mice.
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Press releases - 20.01.2012
3 is the magic number: A chain reaction required to prevent tumor formation
The expression of p53 and Mdm2 is closely related. In an article published this week in the Cancel Cell review, Robin Fahraeus and his collaborators from Inserm Unit 940 (“Therapeutic Targets for Cancer”), demonstrate that cellular response to DNA damage requires involvement from the protein kinase ATM so that Mdm2 can positively or negatively control protein p53. […]
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Press releases - 19.01.2012
A new way to stimulate the immune system and fight infection
A study carried out by Eric Vivier and Sophie Ugolini at the Marseille-Luminy Centre for Immunology (Inserm/CNRS/Université Aix Marseille) has just reveal a gene in mice which, when mutated, can stimulate the immune system to help fight against tumours and viral infections. Whilst this gene was known to activate one of the body’s first lines […]
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Press releases - 18.01.2012
“Senior” runners never stop pushing their limits in marathons
Romauld Lepers and Thomas Cattagni, researchers from Inserm Unit 1093 “Cognition, Action and Sensorimotor Plasticity” at the Université de Bourgogone, have analysed changes in participation and performance of runners aged 20 to 80 in the New York marathon over the last 30 years. The results are largely unexpected: the best male marathon runners over 65 […]
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Press releases - 18.01.2012
Vitamin D receptor: first full 3D observation
For the first time, a team from the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology (IGBMC, Université de Strasbourg/CNRS/Inserm) has succeeded in taking a full, 3D photograph in HD (1) of a small vital,