Although excessive quantities of cholesterol in the body are known to have adverse effects on health, researchers might polish up its reputation via one of its derivatives.
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
The immature brain of a premature infant is capable, at the age of three months pre-term, of distinguishing syllables uttered by male and female voices. These results obtained by INSERM researchers at the University of Picardy Jules Verne and the CEA’s NeuroSpin Imaging Centre, were published in the PNAS journal dated 25 February 2013. They highlight the very early sophisticated organisation of the regions of the brain involved in...
Imagine, in this hybrid operating theatre, surgeons, physicians and engineers surrounded by control screens, using enhanced and roboticised reality systems, enabling interventions that are even more accurate and safe. At the Signal and Image Processing Laboratory (University of Rennes 1 / Inserm), researchers, engineers and doctors at the Rennes CHU Cardio-pneumological Centre have been working together to bring the TherA-Image platform into existence.
Why would our immune system turn against our own cells? This is the question that the combined Inserm/CNRS/ Pierre and Marie Curie University/Association Institut de Myologie have strived to answer in their “Therapies for diseases of striated muscle”, concentrating in particular on the auto-immune disease known as myasthenia gravis.
L’équipe de Patrizia Paterlini-Bréchot publie des résultats dans le diagnostic prénatal non invasif des maladies génétiques, avec comme exemple son application à l’amyotrophie spinale et à la mucoviscidose. Ce test sensible et spécifique à 100% sur un échantillon de 63 femmes est le premier à proposer une alternative à des méthodes dites invasives telles que l’amniocentèse et la biopsie de villosités choriales (BVC)
(French) Des chercheurs de l'Inserm, du CNRS et de l'Université Joseph Fourier à Grenoble, en collaboration avec des cliniciens du CHU de Strasbourg, ont analysé les données de 17 patients dans le coma à partir des données d'IRM fonctionnelle. Ils ont pu mettre en évidence, chez ces patients, une réorganisation des réseaux cérébraux.
Bisphenol A (BPA), which is present to a great extent in our domestic environments, is suspected of inducing hormonal effects in humans.
A novel device that makes it possible to draw and write using just eye movements has been developed by a CNRS researcher at the Centre de Recherche de l'Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle Epinière (CNRS/UPMC/Inserm).
(French) Encore inenvisageable il y a quelques années, les chercheurs de l’Inserm ont réussi à filmer des molécules biologiques d’à peine 5 nanomètres (1) en mouvement. La prouesse technique réalisée par l’équipe de chercheurs dirigée par Simon Scheuring