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New gene therapy success in beta thalassemia: 22 patients treated in France, United States, Thailand and Australia

In an article in the New England Journal of Medicine published on April 19, the intermediate results of a clinical trial (HGB-205) led by Pr. Marina Cavazzana and her teams at the Necker-Enfants malades hospital AP-HP in collaboration with the Imagine Institute ...
Press release | 19 Apr 2018 | Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics Public health

Flunarizine: a New Drug Candidate in the Treatment of Spinal Muscular Atrophy

A team of researchers from Inserm ("Toxicology, pharmacology and cell signaling" JRU 1124) and the universities of Paris Descartes and Paris Diderot have recently discovered that flunarizine – a drug already used to treat migraine and epilepsy – enables the repair of ...
Press release | 20 Feb 2018 | Molecular and structural bases of living organisms Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics Health technologies

A new gene implicated in hypertension

A team of researchers led by Maria-Christina Zennaro, Inserm research Director at the Paris Cardiovascular Research Center (Inserm/ Paris-Descartes University), in collaboration with German colleagues , has identified a new gene implicated in hypertension. This study has been published in Nature Genetics. ...
Press release | 19 Feb 2018 | Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics

UK-France Summit. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Genomic Medicine, the Focus of the Agreement Supported by Aviesan

To become the most advanced and competitive genomics research and healthcare system in the world: such was the ambition declared by Inserm, and its partners Aviesan and Genomics England Ltd, during the UK-France Summit on January 18, 2018. An agreement was signed ...
Press release | 19 Jan 2018 | Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics Institutional and special event

Gut bacteria can help to predict how the body will respond to fatty foods

Scientists have found that certain compounds, produced by microbes in the guts of mice, could be used to show which animals are at greater risk of becoming obese, or developing health conditions such as diabetes or cardiovascular disease. ...
Press release | 05 Jul 2017 | Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics

A major advance towards a treatment for accelerated ageing

In a study published today in the journal EMBO Molecular Medicine1, the team led by Prof. Nicolas Lévy identifies the mechanism associated with the accumulation of progerin, a toxic protein produced in the course of ageing, and demonstrates the therapeutic potential of ...
Press release | 03 Jul 2017 | Genetics, genomics and bioinformatics
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