Press releases

A Single Dose of Yellow Fever Vaccine Does Not Offer Lasting Protection to all Children

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends a single dose of the yellow fever vaccine for individuals aged 9 months or older living in or traveling to areas at risk of disease transmission, but there is a lack of data on its long-term efficacy ...
Press release | 20 Sep 2019 | Immunology, inflammation, infectiology and microbiology

Expertise caregivers helps improve patient diagnosis in altered state of consciousness

Hospital teams Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital AP-HP, Inserm and the Institute of the brain and spinal cord - AP-HP / CNRS / Inserm / University-Sorbonne showed appreciation caregivers (nurses and nursing auxiliaries) for the state of consciousness of patients represented a real added value ...
Press release | 25 Feb 2019 | Neurosciences, cognitives sciences, neurology and psychiatry

Syndrome Temple and Silver Russell understanding of epigenetic mechanisms regulating fetal growth

A team Sorbonne / AP-HP / Inserm, led by Professor Irene Netchine, physiology professor at Sorbonne University and pediatrician at the Hospital Armand Trousseau AP-HP, studied the molecular mechanisms of the clinical similarity between syndrome Temple and Russell Silver syndrome. Their study, ...
Press release | 21 Feb 2019 | Circulation, metabolism, nutrition

Gene therapy durably reverses congenital deafness in mice

In collaboration with the universities of Miami, Columbia and San Francisco, scientists from the Institut Pasteur, Inserm, CNRS, Collège de France, Sorbonne University and the University of Clermont Auvergne have managed to restore hearing in an adult mouse model of DFNB9 deafness ...
| 18 Feb 2019 | Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics Neurosciences, cognitives sciences, neurology and psychiatry

Successful In Utero Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in a Fetus with Severe Combined Immunodeficiency

Teams from the Biological Therapy Department and Pediatric Immunohematology Unit at Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital AP-HP, the Fetal Medicine Department at Trousseau Hospital AP-HP, Inserm, the Imagine Institute, Université Paris Descartes and Sorbonne Université have achieved the in utero transplantation of hematopoietic stem ...
Press release | 15 Feb 2019 | Immunology, inflammation, infectiology and microbiology

Physical activity, prevention and treatment of chronic diseases – A collective expert review by Inserm

Inserm was tasked by the French Ministry of Sports with producing a collective expert review in order to take stock of scientific knowledge and to analyze, within the scope of chronic diseases, the impact of physical activity and its place in the ...
| 14 Feb 2019 | Public health

A nanomedicine which relieves pain without the risk of addiction

A painkiller nanomedicine has just been developed by Patrick Couvreur’s team at Institut Galien Paris-Sud (Université Paris-Sud/CNRS). This new drug specifically targets the area of painful inflammation without causing the addiction phenomena of current medication. ...
Press release | 13 Feb 2019 | Neurosciences, cognitives sciences, neurology and psychiatry
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