- 2017
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Press releases - 23.03.2017
Microbiota and food contaminants : a mycotoxin amplifies the genotoxic action of a gut bacterium
Researchers at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (Inra) and their partners[1] have done animal studies on the consequences of having a certain group of microbiota bacteria and a common food contaminant, deoxynivalenol (DON), present in the gut simultaneously. They show that the presence of this mycotoxin enhances the genotoxicity of the bacteria, i.e. it increases the number of DNA strand breaks in intestinal cells, a phenomenon that can lead to the emergence of malignant cells. This work raises the question of synergy between food contaminants and the intestinal microbiota with respect to the process of colorectal carcinogenesis.
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Press releases - 23.03.2017
The human embryo as you have never seen it
A team coordinated by Alain Chédotal, Inserm research director at the Institut de la Vision (Inserm/UPMC/CNRS) and Paolo Giacobini at the Jean Pierre Aubert research centre (Inserm/Lille University) have just made a series of new observations of the anatomy of human embryos from 6 to 14 weeks old. A feat made possible by combining two recent techniques in immunomarking and 3D microscopy and a technique making the tissues transparent. These discoveries are published in the journal Cell dated 23 March 2017.
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Press releases - 23.03.2017
Stimunity Signs an Exclusive License Agreement with Institut Curie and Inserm
Paris, March 21st, 2017 – Stimunity, Institut Curie and Inserm are pleased to announce that the company has signed an exclusive worldwide license agreement on two key patents that cover Stimunity’s core technology VLP-cGAMP to develop new drugs in immuno-oncology.
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Press releases - 21.03.2017
Gender discrimination also exists in science
Gender discrimination can be found in quite unexpected places. An international team that includes Demian Battaglia, a CNRS Researcher at the Neurosciences Systems Institute (INS) (Inserm/Aix-Marseille University), and researchers from Yale and the Max Planck Institute (Germany) has just demonstrated that women are under-represented in the review process for scientific publications. This research is published in the 21 March 2017 issue of the journal eLife.
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Press releases - 21.03.2017
Friday 24 March: World Tuberculosis Day
According to WHO, tuberculosis is one of the 10 main causes of death in the world. In 2015, 10.4 million people were suffering from this illness and 1.8 million died. Furthermore, tuberculosis is the main cause of death in people who are HIV positive.
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What's on? - 21.03.2017
Friday 24 March: World Tuberculosis Day
According to WHO, tuberculosis is one of the 10 main causes of death in the world. In 2015, 10.4 million people were suffering from this illness and 1.8 million died. Furthermore, tuberculosis is the main cause of death in people who are HIV positive. According to WHO, a third of the world population has latent […]
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Press releases - 20.03.2017
What if optimism were learnt?
How does our brain learn from our mistakes? Does it prefer good news to bad news? These are the questions answered by a team of researchers led by Stefano Palminteri (Inserm-ENS), laureate of the ATIP-Avenir programme, from the Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives. The results will be published in Nature Human Behaviour.
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Press releases - 17.03.2017
Effects of the gut microbiota revisited
Matteo Serino, chargé de recherche Inserm à l’Institut de recherche en santé digestive (IRSD, une unité mixte de recherche Inserm/Université Toulouse III- Paul Sabatier/Ecole nationale vétérinaire de Toulouse/Inra), et ses collaborateurs, montrent que l’altération du microbiote intestinal, qu’elle soit d’origine nutritionnelle ou génétique, peut avoir des effets bénéfiques sur le métabolisme du foie. Ces résultats contredisent des résultats précédents obtenus dans le domaine qui montraient que le transfert d’un microbiote altéré avait forcément des conséquences négatives sur la santé. Ils viennent de paraître dans Molecular Systems Biology.
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Press releases - 15.03.2017
Discovery of an HIV reservoir marker: A new avenue toward eliminating the virus
French researchers have identified a marker that makes it possible to differentiate “dormant” HIV-infected cells from healthy cells. This discovery will make it possible to isolate and analyze reservoir cells which, by silently hosting the virus, are responsible for its persistence even among patients receiving antiviral treatment, whose viral load is undetectable. It offers new therapeutic strategies for targeting infected cells. This research is part of the ANRS strategic program “Réservoirs du VIH”. It is the result of a collaboration between the CNRS, Montpellier University, Inserm, the Institut Pasteur, the Henri-Mondor AP-HP hospital in Créteil, the Gui de Chauliac hospital (CHU de Montpellier) and the VRI (Vaccine Research Institute), and is published in the journal Nature on March 15, 2017. A patent owned by the CNRS has been filed for the diagnostic and therapeutic use of the identified marker.
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What's on? - 14.03.2017
Friday, March 17: World Sleep Day
Friday, March 17 will mark the 17th edition of World Sleep Day, an opportunity to raise general public awareness of the health impact of sleep. Sleep is essential to brain maturation and development. It also plays a fundamental role in metabolic functions, notably by regulating the production of several hormones. Sleep quality is likely to […]