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Des chercheurs à Généthon démontrent la possibilité de ré-administrer une thérapie génique

Des chercheurs de Généthon, le laboratoire de l’AFM-Téléthon, et de l'Inserm, en collaboration avec la biotech américaine Selecta Biosciences, démontrent la possibilité de ré-administrer une thérapie génique par vecteur AAV (virus adéno-associé), sans réponse immunitaire, grâce à des nanoparticules de rapamycine, un ...
Press release | 05 Oct 2018 | Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics

Myositis: A New Classification Representing a Decisive Step Towards Improved Diagnosis and Personalized Treatment

Prof. Olivier Benveniste’s Inflammatory myopathies and innovative targeted therapies team at the Institute of Myology has produced a new classification of the different forms of myositis (rare inflammatory muscle diseases). Four new types of myositis taking into account the various clinical criteria ...
Press release | 10 Sep 2018 | Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics Neurosciences, cognitives sciences, neurology and psychiatry Health technologies

In Mice, Exposure to Chlordecone has Transgenerational Effects on Sperm Production

A study coordinated by Inserm researchers at the Research Institute for Environmental and Occupational Health in Rennes shows that exposing pregnant mice to chlordecone affects the third generation of their male progeny ...
Press release | 23 Jul 2018 | Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics Public health

Pandoravirus: giant viruses invent their own genes

Three new members have been isolated and added to the Pandoravirus family by researchers at the Structural and Genomic Information Laboratory (CNRS/Aix‐Marseille Université), working with partners at the Large Scale Biology Laboratory (CEA/Inserm/Université Grenoble‐Alpes) and at CEA-Genoscope. This strange family of viruses, ...
Press release | 11 Jun 2018 | Molecular and structural bases of living organisms Cancer Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics Immunology, inflammation, infectiology and microbiology

Discovery of a first genetic cause of Whipple’s disease

A Franco-American team involving researchers from Inserm, Université Paris-Descartes and doctors grouped in the Institute Imagine the hospital Necker-Enfants Malades AP-HP and Rockefeller University New York discovered a genetic cause of Whipple's disease, chronic intestinal pathology. By studying families with 4 members ...
Press release | 02 May 2018 | Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics

Discovery of a future therapy for hemoglobinopathies

With the genome editing CRISPR-case.9 technique, researchers at INSERM, the hospital Necker Children-AP-HP, and Université Paris Descartes in the Institute Imagine managed to reactivate a gene that may improve the appearance of red blood cells of patients with hemoglobinopathies such as sickle ...
Press release | 26 Apr 2018 | Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics
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