The HOMAGE (Heart OMics in AGEing) project, coordinated by the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), has been awarded a grant by the European Commission for a 6 year period. The project aims to identify and validate specific biomarkers of heart failure in order to prevent the development of the disease affecting elderly population. 17 research groups from 10 countries will collaborate to investigate new ways...
The cardiology service team at the Hôpital Bichat and the Mixed INSERM Unit 698 (AP-HP, Université Paris Diderot), in collaboration with international teams of researchers, studied a cohort of patients suffering from coronary disease. The study showed that those patients with a history of stroke or transient ischæmic attack (TIA) are not only at higher risk of cardio-vascular episodes but also of haemorrhagic events, stressing the therapeutic challenge involved...
The therapeutic efficacy of certain anti-cancer vaccines depends on how they are administered. This is what the team of researchers headed by Eric Tartour at the Paris-Centre de recherche Cardiovasculaire (Université Paris Descartes, INSERM Unit 970 PARCC, AP-HP), in collaboration with researchers from the CNRS , have just demonstrated.
The iCub humanoid robot on which the team directed by Peter Ford Dominey, CNRS Director of Research at Inserm Unit 846 known as the “Institut pour les cellules souches et cerveau de Lyon” [Lyon Institute for Stem Cell and Brain Research] (Inserm, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1) has been working for many years will now be able to understand what is being said to it and even anticipate...
Des chercheurs strasbourgeois du laboratoire Biotechnologie et signalisation cellulaire de l'École Supérieure de Biotechnologie de Strasbourg (CNRS/Université de Strasbourg) et de l’Institut de génétique et de biologie moléculaire et cellulaire (CNRS/Université de Strasbourg/Inserm) ont résolu, pour la première fois, la structure tridimensionnelle d’une oncoprotéine majeure, impliquée dans la prolifération cellulaire et à l’origine du développement du papillomavirus humain. Celui-ci, de type 16 (HPV 16), est le plus dangereux...
Comment la recherche sur le syndrome de Usher – handicap héréditaire particulièrement invalidant, portant atteinte aux deux sens majeurs, l’audition et la vision – a-t-elle franchi une étape majeure dans la compréhension des mécanismes à l’origine de la rétinopathie pigmentaire ? Comment est-elle parvenue à améliorer le diagnostic clinique et à développer le diagnostic moléculaire ? Comment prépare-t-elle les essais de thérapie génique de la rétinopathie du syndrome ?...
Françoise Clavel-Chapelon, (Director of Research at INSERM-University of Paris-Sud 11, at the Institut Gustave Roussy), and Guy Fagherazzi were interested in a connection between the consumption of ‘diet’ or ‘light’ soft drinks and the risk of Type II diabetes. The analysis performed on 66,188 women in the E3N cohort confirms a link between sweet soft drinks and type II diabetes and reveals for the first time in France that,...
The movement of molecules in the neuron extensions known as axons is a process that is vital for the survival of cells and the smooth operation of the nervous system. It is performed by vesicles that travel fast thanks to the energy-hungry molecular engines. At the “Signalling, neurobiology and cancer” Laboratory (Institut Curie/CNRS/Inserm) at the Institut Curie, the team headed by Frédéric Saudou , INSERM Director of Research, has...
In conjunction with the Senate Commission for Social Affairs, Inserm has organised the 6th meeting between national research representatives and patient associations, to be held on Thursday, 31 January 2013. More than twenty researchers and association representatives will provide first-hand accounts and develop dialogue with the senators in front of more than 250 participants. During this event, the results of a large survey conducted on some 600 researchers from...
Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, Présidente de la Fondation Bettencourt Schueller, remettra, mardi 29 janvier à l’Institut de France, en présence d’éminents représentants de la communauté scientifique française, les Prix de la 13ème édition des Coups d’Elan pour la Recherche Française.
La Commission européenne a officiellement désigné le Human Brain Project (HBP) comme l’un de ses deux projets FET Flagship. Le HBP regroupera les scientifiques de tout le continent autour de l’un des plus grands défis de la science contemporaine: comprendre le cerveau humain.
