Press releases

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

Alzheimer’s: identification of potential target protein aggregates for treating the disease

La propagation des agrégats de la protéine Tau dans le cerveau contribue à la progression de la maladie d’Alzheimer. Des chercheurs du Laboratoire des maladies neurodégénératives : mécanismes, thérapies, imagerie (CNRS/CEA/Université Paris-Sud, MIRCen), en collaboration avec l’Ecole normale supérieure, Sorbonne Université et l’Inserm, ...
Press release | 11 Jan 2019 | Cell biology, development and evolution Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics Neurosciences, cognitives sciences, neurology and psychiatry

Discovery of novel mechanisms that cause migraines

Researchers at CNRS, Université Côte d’Azur and Inserm have demonstrated a new mechanism related to the onset of migraine. In fact, they found how a mutation, causes dysfunction in a protein which inhibits neuronal electrical activity, induces migraines. These results, published in ...
Press release | 17 Dec 2018 | Cell biology, development and evolution Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics Neurosciences, cognitives sciences, neurology and psychiatry

Cancer under pressure: visualizing the activity of the immune system on tumor development

As tumors develop, they evolve genetically. How does the immune system act when faced with tumor cells? How does it exert pressure on the genetic diversity of cancer cells? Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and Inserm used in vivo video techniques and ...
Press release | 23 Nov 2018 | Cell biology, development and evolution Cancer Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics Immunology, inflammation, infectiology and microbiology Health technologies

The origins of asymmetry: A protein that makes you do the twist

Asymmetry plays a major role in biology at every scale: think of DNA spirals, the fact that the human heart is positioned on the left, our preference to use our left or right hand … A team from the Institute of biology ...
Press release | 23 Nov 2018 | Molecular and structural bases of living organisms Cell biology, development and evolution Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics

Identifying a genetic factor causing lung fibrosis complicating rheumatoid arthritis

Teams of rheumatology, respiratory medicine, genetics and the university hospital department FIRE Hospital Bichat Claude Bernard AP-HP, in collaboration with INSERM, Université Paris Diderot, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, have discovered that a rare allele of rs35705950 ...
Press release | 22 Oct 2018 | Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics Circulation, metabolism, nutrition
fermer
fermer
RSS Youtube