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Nobel Prize in Medicine: Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi rewarded for discovery of regulatory T cells

The Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to American researchers Mary E. Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell, and Japanese researcher Shimon Sakaguchi, for their discoveries in peripheral immune tolerance. Inserm looks back at the importance of this work, particularly for research into cancer and autoimmune diseases.

Nobel Prize for Medicine 2023

The winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine were announced on Monday October 2, 2023. They are American-Hungarian Katalin Karikó and American Drew Weissman. They are being rewarded for their discoveries concerning nucleic base modifications, which were essential to the development of effective messenger RNA vaccines against Covid-19. Their work has also fundamentally altered our understanding of how mRNA interacts with our immune system.

Malaria: Vaccine clinical trial for Pregnant Women yields promising results

Malaria infection during pregnancy represents a major public health problem in the regions endemic for the disease, substantially increasing the risks to mothers and their unborn children. For newborns, malaria is linked to low birth weight and an excess risk of mortality. To protect this population, a team of researchers from Inserm and Université de […]

“Fake news” and misinformation around the SARS-CoV2 coronavirus

[/credits] As with all highly mediatized topics, SARS-CoV-2 has its share of misinformation. Originating in the Chinese province of Hubei in 2019, the epidemic caused by this novel coronavirus, now referred to as SARS-CoV-2, and COVID-19 for the disease it causes in people, continues to stoke the fires of not just the traditional media, but […]

Deadly outbreak in China linked to a novel form of coronavirus

Inserm is a signatory to the following international joint statement issued by the Wellcome Trust [1] : Coronaviruses, which are named after the crown shape of the proteins that surround them, are a family of viruses that have a traditionally animal reservoir. In some cases, transmission from animal to human is possible, as […]

Reprise de la campagne de vaccination contre la grippe

D’après la Fédération des pharmaciens d’officine (FSPF), plus d’un million de personnes en France s’étaient déjà faites vaccinées contre la grippe au 1er novembre 2019, deux semaines après le lancement de la campagne annuelle. Avec le réseau Sentinelles et le projet Grippenet, l’Inserm participe activement à la surveillance des apparitions de symptômes grippaux sur […]

Update : Jeanne Calment the oldest woman

Update on 16/09/2019 A new article published in the journal The Journal of Gerontology by Jean-Marie Robine, research director at Inserm and his Swiss and Danish colleagues, reaffirms that Jeanne Calment’s identity has not been usurped and that she died at the age 122 years old. In order to show this, they have: – provided […]