
Road transport is one of the main vectors of animal epidemics. It is vital to understand how potentially infected animals are transported and exchanged within a country.
The verdict in the trial of the couple who killed their daughter Marina is due to be delivered on 27 June 2012. The trial has highlighted the blindness of many professionals, an issue raised by A. Tursz and C. Gréco in an editorial: “Child abuse: how do we overcome denial?” in the journal Archives de […]
The researchers from INERIS and Inserm have just developed a test in fish that allows us to detect the endocrinal disrupting effects of certain contaminants in the environment.
(French) L’équipe de Xavier Nissan est parvenue à identifier un mécanisme moléculaire qui, dans la progéria, protège les cellules neurales d’un vieillissement accéléré.
On June 18th, a one-day scientific symposium in Paris entitled “Neurobiological basis of Anxiety disorders”, got together scientists from 6 of the partners of DEVANX (1) , a European project coordinated by Inserm and launched in 2008. It was an opportunity to take stock of what knowledge has been acquired about the neurological basis of […]
(French) Les résultats d’une étude menée par des chercheurs de l’Inserm (Unité Inserm 1018 « centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations ») et publiés dans l’International Journal of Cancer, montrent que le risque de cancer du sein est augmenté chez les femmes ayant travaillé de nuit.
During the baccalaureate examination period, the Inserm press service is making resources available on the latest research into memory, a valuable asset that sometimes lets us down at exam time. Read the information pack on memory on the Inserm.fr website Photo:
Women are less prone to cardiovascular disease then men; but this difference between the sexes becomes less marked after the menopause.
(French) Des chercheurs de l’Institut Pasteur, de l’Inserm, de l’université Paris Descartes et de Mines ParisTech ont montré comment renforcer les effets du BCG qui constitue,