A study conducted by Inserm’s Centre for Epidemiology on Medical Causes of Death (CépiDc) and the Paris public hospital system (AP-HP) highlights an association between suicide rate and unemployment in metropolitan France between 2000 and 2010.
A team of researchers from Inserm led by Fanny Mochel and located at the Brain and Spinal Cord Institute (Inserm/CNRS/UPMC/AP-HP) has just demonstrated the therapeutic potential of triheptanoin in ten patients with Huntington’s disease.
In metropolitan France last week, the incidence rate for cases of acute diarrhoea seen in general practice was estimated at 253 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, i.e. 160,000 new cases, higher than the previous week, and just below the epidemic threshold (269 cases per 100,000 inhabitants).
Is there a relationship between blood group and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes? This is the question studied by Guy Fagherazzi and his collaborators from Joint Research Unit 1018, “Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health” (Inserm/University Paris-Sud) at Gustave Roussy Institute.
An international collaboration coordinated by the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) (University of Heidelberg), including French researchers from the Institute of Genetics and Development of Rennes (IGDR) (CNRS/University of Rennes 1) under the leadership of Gwenaël Rabut, Inserm Researcher, and teams from Sweden and Canada, has just demonstrated a new molecular mechanism that may allow cells to destroy proteins accidentally localised to the nucleus.
Valérie Mazeau-Woynar succeeds Claire Giry at the head of Inserm’s Department of Partnerships and External Relations (DPRE). In this role, she will contribute to the implementation of Inserm’s institutional partnerships at regional, national, European and international level, at the behest of Directorate General, and in coordination with the Thematic Institutes.
For the first time, the team led by Gérard Gradwohl, an Inserm Research Director at the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Illkirch (IGBMC/Inserm-CNRS-University of Strasbourg), has shown that the Rfx6 gene is essential for the functioning of the cells that produce insulin, the pancreatic beta cells.
The pilot clinical trial conducted by Inserm is aimed at testing the efficacy of favipiravir in reducing mortality in individuals infected by Ebola virus in Guinea.
The complete genomes of 16 anopheline mosquito species from the five continents have just been sequenced. Ten years of research have enabled an international consortium, coordinated by the University of Michigan and University of Notre Dame (United States) and including researchers from the French Institute for Development Research (IRD) and Inserm, to publish in the 27 November 2014 issue of the journal Science the DNA sequence for these mosquitoes,...
Inserm was asked by the French Ministry of Community, Youth Affairs and Sports to prepare a collective expert report that would provide a review of the scientific knowledge regarding the contribution of physical activity to the prevention of falls in older people.
