- 2016
- What's on? - 10.06.2016
Launching of UEFA EURO 2016 Football Championships
France will be hosting the UEFA EURO 2016 Football Championships from Friday 10 June to Sunday 10 July. During this competition, many parts of the players’ bodies will be severely tested. Although the benefits of regular physical activity on physical and mental health have been demonstrated by many studies, what are the risks associated with […]
- Press releases - 07.06.2016
Anorexia nervosa: pleasure at getting thin more than fear of getting fat
A study from Inserm, Paris Descartes University and Sainte Anne Hospital suggests that anorexia nervosa might not be explained by fear of gaining weight, but by the pleasure of losing it… and that the phenomenon might be genetically influenced. Published in Translational Psychiatry, this study, directed by Prof. Gorwood, head of the Clinic for Mental and Brain Diseases, challenges the notion of fear of weight gain in anorexia patients.
- Press releases - 06.06.2016
Epigenomic alterations contribute to obesity-associated diabetes
Des chercheurs de l’Inserm et de l’Université Pierre et Marie Curie du Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, en collaboration avec des chercheurs de l’institut Karolinska en Suède, ont décrit le mécanisme par lequel le facteur GPS2 réprime la survenue du diabète de type 2 chez les personnes obèses. Ces travaux, publiés dans la revue Nature Medicine, mettent en lumière l’importance de l’épigénome dans l’apparition de la maladie.
- Press releases - 01.06.2016
Sunday 5 June 2016: World Environment Day
Initiated by the United Nations, World Environment Day is celebrated on 5 June every year in order to encourage awareness of the world environment, and stimulate individual actions.
At Inserm, there is active ongoing research to identify the impacts of our environment on health, especially the effects of atmospheric pollution, endocrine disruptors and their consequences for reproductive function, and the relationship between environment and cancers.[1]
- What's on? - 01.06.2016
Sunday 5 June 2016: World Environment Day
Initiated by the United Nations, World Environment Day is celebrated on 5 June every year in order to encourage awareness of the world environment, and stimulate individual actions. At Inserm, there is active ongoing research to identify the impacts of our environment on health, especially the effects of atmospheric pollution, endocrine disruptors and their consequences […]
- News in brief - 27.05.2016
Academic Doping: Psychostimulant Use Among Medical Students
Under severe pressure owing to an intense workload, medical students are attempting to boost their performance by any means. An Inserm study has revealed possible psychostimulant use among a third of these students. A population of 1,718 French medical students (average age 27 years, 37% male) was interviewed on the subject of psychostimulant use. Inserm researchers […]
- Press releases - 25.05.2016
Skin cancer: a team synthesises new drugs with surprising powers
Finding new, more effective and personalised treatments for cancer is the challenge of many researchers. A challenge that has been successfully met by a team from Inserm led by Stéphane Rocchi (Inserm Unit 1065, “Mediterranean Center for Molecular Medicine”), which has just synthesised and developed new drugs for melanoma. One of them, known as HA15, reduces the viability of melanoma cells without being toxic for normal cells. This work has just been published in the journal Cancer Cell.
- What's on? - 20.05.2016
Thursday 26 May 2016: National Day of Screening for Skin Cancer
Organised by the French National Union of Dermatologists (SNDV), and supported by the French National Cancer Institute (INCa), the 18th edition of the National Day of Screening for Skin Cancer will be held on Thursday, 26 May 2016, to highlight the risks of UV exposure, and to raise awareness about the measures for protecting oneself […]
- Press releases - 20.05.2016
Stroke study prompts call for revised treatment guidelines
Doctors should rethink how they treat patients who have suffered the deadliest form of stroke, a clinical trial suggests.The study recommends a change in guidelines for treating any patients who have had a stroke caused by bleeding into the brain – known as intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH) – while regularly taking aspirin.
- Press releases - 19.05.2016
HIV: Identification of key immune response receptors in patients spontaneously controlling infection
A small number of patients infected by HIV spontaneously control viral replication without antiretroviral therapy, and do not develop the disease. The ability of these rare patients, known as “HIV controllers”, to suppress HIV replication appears to be down to a highly effective immune response. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and Inserm observed that CD4+ T immune cells in these patients, recruited from the ANRS CO21 CODEX cohort, were capable of recognizing tiny quantities of the virus. This highly sensitive detection is dependent on the expression of specific T cell receptors on the surface of immune cells, which target the HIV capsid protein with high affinity. The preferential expression of these receptors appears to keep the immune system on a constant state of alert, thereby enabling the patients to control HIV. These findings have been published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.