- 2019
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Press releases - 05.11.2019
A Vaccine to Overcome Immunotherapy Resistance
Researchers have shown that a commercially-available vaccine can overcome resistance to immunotherapy. Their study, published in Science Translational Medicine, shows that not only can gastroenteritis vaccines induce the immunogenic death of cancer cells in vitro, but also that combining them with immunotherapy triggers a potent anti-tumor immune response in vivo – where immunotherapy alone had failed.
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Press releases - 04.11.2019
Is physical activity always good for the heart?
Physical activity is thought to be our greatest ally in the fight against cardiovascular disease. But there may be significant variations in its protective effects across a range of different situations, such as regularly playing a sport, carrying heavy loads at work, or going for a walk with friends. These are the findings of a new study led by Inserm researcher Jean-Philippe Empana (U970 PARCC, Inserm/Université de Paris) in collaboration with Australian researchers.
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Press releases - 30.10.2019
Study on the medico-economic implications of the level of insecurity in Inpatient Pediatrics
Teams of the Clinical Research Unit in Health Economics “ECO Île-de-France” * at the Hotel Dieu AP-HP, the Clinical Epidemiology Unit and Pediatric Endocrinology-diabetology Service hospital Robert Debré AP-HP, and mixed research unit INSERM / University of Paris U1123 “clinical Epidemiology and economic evaluation applied to vulnerable populations (ECEVE) conducted a study on the association between job insecurity, duration of hospital stay and hospital costs in pediatrics. More than four million pediatric visits were analyzed and insecurity was measured based on the standard of living of residence.
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Press releases - 29.10.2019
Pediatric Cancers: Why Some Forms of Leukemia Only Affect Children
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) mainly affects children, with the prognosis often being poor despite several decades of research into more effective treatments. A new study explains why some forms of leukemia develop in very young children.
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Press releases - 28.10.2019
The creativity of the human mind rooted in errors ?
Most of our choices are not motivated by curiosity but by errors caused by the brain mechanisms implicated in evaluating our options.
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Press releases - 28.10.2019
How People with Autism Might Avoid Socio-Emotional Situations
One hypothesis put forward to explain the repetitive behaviors of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder is a lack of cognitive flexibility. However, this may well not be the case. A recent study used MRI to track the brain activity of autistic and non-autistic subjects faced with situations similar to those that cause problems in the daily lives of people with the disorder. Their findings, published in Brain and Cognition, suggest that the inflexibility of autistic individuals is actually the result of a strategy used to avoid socio-emotional situations. This research, which suggests now considering the cognitive and socio-emotional domains as closely linked rather than dissociated, opens up new avenues in the understanding and management of autism.
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Press releases - 24.10.2019
Rare Diseases: Over 300 Million Patients Affected Worldwide
Rare diseases represent a global problem. Until now, the lack of data made it difficult to estimate their prevalence. Created and coordinated by Inserm, the Orphanet database, has made it possible to obtain a global estimate.
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Press releases - 23.10.2019
Skin graft: a new molecular target for activating stem cells
A joint study led by several teams open skin regeneration medecine to new insights.
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Press releases - 22.10.2019
Some Persistent Organic Pollutants Could Increase Breast Cancer Aggressiveness
Although persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are already suspected to promote breast cancer, there has been little research into how they affect its aggressiveness.
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Press releases - 17.10.2019
A new discovery! How our memories stabilise while we sleep
Scientists have shown that delta waves emitted while we sleep are not generalized periods of silence during which the cortex rests, as has been described for decades in the scientific literature. Instead, they isolate assemblies of neurons that play an essential role in long-term memory formation.