A study carried out by Ali Amara's team at the combined Inserm/CNRS- Université Paris Diderot "Molecular pathology and virology" unit in the Saint-Louis hospital in Paris, working jointly with the team from the Pasteur Institute in Paris and the team from the Salk Institute in San Diego, has identified two families of receptors that play an important part in the penetration of the Dengue virus into cells.
Two new tests capable of rapidly diagnosing resistance to wide-spectrum antibiotics have just been developed by Inserm Unit 914 "Emerging resistances to antibiotics"
Only 10% of individuals infected by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which causes tuberculosis, go on to develop the disease.
(French) Lors de l'infection par le VIH, un cercle vicieux d'hyperactivation du système immunitaire entrave l'élimination du virus.
(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,
This finding represents a major step forward in the scientific
(French) Des équipes de chercheurs de l’Institut Pasteur, du CNRS et de l'Inserm viennent de déterminer, pour la première fois, la structure et le mode d’action d’un anticorps capable de neutraliser simultanément les quatre formes du virus de la dengue, chez la souris.
A study carried out by Eric Vivier and Sophie Ugolini at the Marseille-Luminy Centre for Immunology (Inserm/CNRS/Université Aix Marseille) has just reveal a gene in mice which, when mutated, can stimulate the immune system to help fight against tumours and viral infections. Whilst this gene was known to activate one of the body’s first lines […]