The French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm), the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), in collaboration with health authorities in Guinea and Liberia, are launching a large clinical trial of candidate Ebola vaccines under the aegis of the PREVAC international consortium (Partnership for Research on Ebola VACcination).
A team of researchers in France, led by Dr. Ana Buj-Bello (Genethon/Inserm) and teams at the University of Washington and Harvard Medical School in the United States, achieved a new step towards the treatment of myotubular myopathy by gene therapy. The researchers demonstrated the efficacy of administration of a therapeutic vector by a single intravenous injection and identified the dose that restores long-term muscular strength in a large animal...
Le rôle des facteurs nutritionnels (alimentation et activité physique) dans le développement du surpoids et de l’obésité et dans la survenue de nombreuses maladies chroniques telles que les cancers, les maladies cardiovasculaires, le diabète et l’arthrose est à ce jour scientifiquement bien établi. Ces maladies constituent la première cause de mortalité à l’échelle de la planète et le nombre de patients concernés ne cesse d’augmenter.
In a study published on 1 April 2017 in the prestigious journal Cancer Discovery, research teams at Gustave Roussy, Inserm and Paris-Sud University demonstrate that analysing the molecular portrait of a malignant tumour makes it possible to identify the appropriate therapy and improve the prognosis of patients with cancer. MOSCATO, the biggest precision medicine study conducted to date, proves it for the first time.
Les individus apprennent à évaluer le niveau de prudence, de patience ou de fainéantise dont font preuve les autres après avoir observé leur comportement, mais surtout, cela influe sur leurs propres décisions, sans même qu’ils s’en rendent compte. Une découverte qui pourrait avoir des retombées en neurosciences. Les décisions de nos voisins inspirent-elles les nôtres ? C’est ce que laissent entendre les travaux de Jean Daunizeau et Marie Devaine,...
On 2 April, World Autism Awareness Day takes place with the aim of raising awareness and better informing the general public on the realities of this development disorder. Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder that appears during childhood and continues into adulthood. It presents as an altered ability to establish social interactions and communicate, and as behavioural problems.France has about 100 young people under 20 who have Pervasive Developmental...
Prof. François Dabis has just been appointed Director of ANRS, an autonomous agency of Inserm, by the Ministers responsible for Research and Health, on the proposal of the Chairman and CEO of Inserm. A physician, academic and internationally renowned researcher, Prof. Dabis specialises in epidemiology and public health. He succeeds Prof. Jean-François Delfraissy, the new President of the National Consultative Ethics Committee.
During the last weekend in March we moved to summer time.During the night of Saturday into Sunday, we put our clocks forward one hour.Does this change in the hour, whose benefit lies mainly in energy savings, have an impact on our health? Does it disturb our biological clock and the quality of our sleep ?
Researchers at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (Inra) and their partners[1] have done animal studies on the consequences of having a certain group of microbiota bacteria and a common food contaminant, deoxynivalenol (DON), present in the gut simultaneously. They show that the presence of this mycotoxin enhances the genotoxicity of the bacteria, i.e. it increases the number of DNA strand breaks in intestinal cells, a phenomenon that...
A team coordinated by Alain Chédotal, Inserm research director at the Institut de la Vision (Inserm/UPMC/CNRS) and Paolo Giacobini at the Jean Pierre Aubert research centre (Inserm/Lille University) have just made a series of new observations of the anatomy of human embryos from 6 to 14 weeks old. A feat made possible by combining two recent techniques in immunomarking and 3D microscopy and a technique making the tissues transparent....
