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La souche historique du SARS-CoV-2 décroît alors que progression du variant britannique s’intensifie

Face à l’apparition des variants du SARS-COV2, de nouvelles projections concernant la dynamique épidémique sont nécessaires pour accompagner les politiques publiques. D'après les derniers scénarios élaborés par les chercheurs de l’Inserm sous la direction de Vittoria Colizza, le variant « britannique ...
15 Feb 2021 | Covid-19 | Immunology, inflammation, infectiology and microbiology | Public health

Depression, cardiovascular risk… and the class struggle

Depression is not just one of the world’s most incapacitating illnesses - it also comes with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, particularly that of the coronary arteries (angina and heart attack). ...
07 Apr 2017 | Neurosciences, cognitives sciences, neurology and psychiatry

Measuring gray matter to predict recovery from coma

Predicting recovery from coma following cardiac arrest remains a question to which physicians do not have an exact response. When - and if - a critical care patient will recover consciousness is evaluated essentially by means of recurrent clinical examinations and the ...
28 Mar 2017 | Neurosciences, cognitives sciences, neurology and psychiatry

A patient has been living with an artificial larynx for the 18 months

In 2013, researchers from Inserm and physicians from the Strasbourg University Hospitals announced their success in developing an artificial larynx. Since the first time they began implanting this prosthesis five years ago in patients whose own larynx had been removed for health ...
17 Jan 2017 | Health technologies

Zika virus infects the human retina

Deux équipes de l'Inserm viennent de démontrer que le virus Zika peut infecter l'’épithélium pigmentaire de la rétine humaine et serait ainsi potentiellement capable de provoquer des atteintes rétinienne. Cette étude est publiée dans Journal of Virology. ...
05 Dec 2016 | Immunology, inflammation, infectiology and microbiology

Smell, those neurons with a nose

Thanks to the receptors in our nose, we can identify thousands of smells. But there are still many grey areas regarding the mechanisms at work in sending information to the brain. ...
22 Nov 2016 | Neurosciences, cognitives sciences, neurology and psychiatry

13/11 attacks: young people deeply marked

One year after the 13 November attacks, the survey “Conditions de vie et Aspirations” (Living Conditions and Aspirations) by CRÉDOC (Research Centre for the Study and Monitoring of Living Standards), part of the 13 Novembre programme initiated by Inserm, CNRS and héSam ...
10 Nov 2016 | Public health
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