INSERM and CEA researchers recently showed that the pharmacological blocking of the TGFβ molecule improves the production of new neurones in the mouse model.
Hervé Chneiweiss, a research director at the CNRS, has just been appointed President of the Inserm Ethics Committee. Inserm's Ethics Committee for medical research and health was set up in 2000 with the aim of playing an active part in the dialogue between Society and the scientific and medical communities.
Un groupe européen de laboratoires s’apprête à combiner la biologie des systèmes intégrés & la génomique comparative afin d’étudier le vieillissement du cerveau humain et/ou les pathologies les plus fréquemment liées à l’âge, avec une attention toute spéciale portée à la maladie d’Alzheimer d’apparition tardive, avec pour but d’identifier et de valider de nouvelles cibles moléculaires et de nouveaux biomarqueurs. Ce programme de recherche de quatre ans est coordonné...
How is it that certain patients infected by HIV have immune cells that are capable of controlling the infection? Victor Appay, INSERM Research Director (Mixed INSERM Research Unit 945 “ Immunity and Infection” / Université Pierre and Marie Curie / Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière (AP-HP)) and his colleagues have succeeded in identifying the molecular characteristics of certain T lymphocytes that have the specific property of being able to detect and...
The Horizon Health web portal (www.horizonhealth.eu) has been officially launched today. The Horizon Health web portal aims to become a valuable online resource for journalists and interested citizens looking for accurate, up-to-date, and attractive information on health research funded by the EU
For the first time, researchers in the INSERM “Epidemiology of reproduction and infant development” team (Unit 1018 at the “Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health”) compared all of the existing treatments for ectopic pregnancy with respect to their impact on natural fertility during the subsequent two years. The conclusions of the study reproduced in the journal Human Reproduction indicate that the ability to have a normal pregnancy...
Researchers have designed a system for sensing brain activity that is 100% biocompatible and made of organic matter. The medium, which is only a few microns thick, is as thin and flexible as cellophane, and yet very tough. The model was tested on an animal suffering from epilepsy. The quality of the brain signal recorded was 10 times better than the traditional brain activity recording systems
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Constances is a “generalist’ epidemiological cohort constituted from a representative sample of 200,000 adults aged 18 to 69. It has been organised by the Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et santé des populations (CESP - INSERM/Université Paris Sud/Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines) in partnership .
An international group of researchers has discovered seven new regions in the human genome associated with an increased risk of developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD), one of the main causes of blindness.
Le 27 février, les données de la surveillance de la grippe confirmaient le franchissement du pic épidémique de la grippe saisonnière. Le site Internet www.grippenet.fr permet pour la deuxième année consécutive de collecter des données sur les syndromes grippaux directement auprès de la population française.
