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Obesity: Using the Microbiota to Fight the Harmful Effects of Fatty Liver

Day after day, the microbiota continues to yield its secrets. In a new study published in Nature Medicine, Rémy Burcelin, Inserm Research Director at the Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases (Inserm/UPS) along with researchers from Inserm Paris, Imperial College London, Girona ...

Press release | 11 Jul 2018 | Circulation, metabolism, nutrition

(Français) Maladies chroniques du foie: découverte du rôle des lymphocytes T invariants associés aux muqueuses (MAIT) dans l’inflammation et la fibrose

(Français) Des équipes des services d’hépatologie, d’anesthésie-réanimation et d’anatomo-pathologie de l’hôpital Beaujon AP-HP, de l’Inserm, de l’Université Paris Diderot et de l’Institut Cochin – Université Paris Descartes, ont démontré qu’une population particulière de lymphocytes T, appelée « MAIT », jouait un rôle ...

Press release | 02 Jul 2018 | Circulation, metabolism, nutrition

Cost-effective universal screening for hepatitis C in France

An estimated 75 000 people in France are unaware they are infected by hepatitis C virus. An ANRS-funded study by Sylvie Deuffic-Burban, a research associate at IAME (Infection, Antimicrobials, Modeling, Evolution) (Inserm - Université Paris Diderot - Université Paris 13), and her team ...

Press release | 01 Jul 2018 | Immunology, inflammation, infectiology and microbiology Public health

A new twist on how parasites invade host cells

(Français) Des chercheurs du CNRS, de l’Inserm et de l’Université Grenoble Alpes viennent de décrypter les mécanismes déployés par le parasite Toxoplasma gondii pour pénétrer dans les cellules de ses hôtes. À l’aide d’une imagerie quantitative à haute vitesse et haute résolution, ...

Press release | 28 Jun 2018 | Immunology, inflammation, infectiology and microbiology

A Summer of Science and Art with the Participation of Inserm

Inserm has long played a proactive role in scientific outreach in order to share science and biomedical research advances with the general public. And this summer 2018 will be no exception, with its host of events in which art and science will ...

Press release | 28 Jun 2018 | Institutional and special event

Hypertension: An international study shows the blood pressure benefit of endovascular renal denervation focused ultrasound in patients receiving no antihypertensive drug

After reporting the first positive results of renal denervation in blood pressure (HBP) resistant in the journal The Lancetin 2015, the team of the Center of Excellence in Hypertension and CIC1418 APHP-INSERM led by Dr. Michel Azizi and that of the interventional radiology ...

Press release | 21 Jun 2018 | Public health

How does air pollution affect the placenta ?

Researchers from Inserm, CNRS and Université Grenoble Alpes working at the Institute for Advanced Biosciences (Joint Research Unit 1209) have analyzed the consequences of environmental exposure in utero using data collected from a cohort of 668 women. Exposure to atmospheric pollution is ...

Press release | 21 Jun 2018 | Public health