The 15th edition of Brain Awareness Week will take place in France and in 62 countries around the world from 10 to 16 March 2014. Throughout this week, the general public will be able to meet researchers from Inserm to gain better knowledge of the brain and become better informed about recent research in this […]
Throughout the year, the press office filmed Inserm researchers talking about their discoveries in the simplest possible terms. The short “making of” below shows that this was not always easy. Enjoy the bloopers of 2013! We at the Inserm press office hope that these 2 minutes will make you smile as much as they did […]
4th Meeting-Debate with support groups for people in difficulty with alcohol Are people “addicts” when they are dependent, or is the opposite true? Or are both words totally interchangeable? What is there in common between addiction-dependency on alcohol and dependency-addiction to gambling? The day will be centred around 3 main panel sessions : From alcoholism […]
“Cure through innovation” is the slogan of the Telethon 2013 fundraising campaign which will begin on 6 and 7 December. For a very long time, these disorders, which are mainly genetic and invalidating, were poorly understood. The Telethon, a major fundraising movement organised by and for the French Muscular Dystrophy Association (AFM), broadcast live on […]
The 20th World Alzheimer’s Day is to be held on 21 September 2013. The main aim of this international day is to reflect on ways to improve the quality of life of patients and carers. Today, over 850,000 people are living with this disease. This day was the occasion for the Alzheimer Foundation, hosted by […]
At the IUT GMP of Lyon 1 University, researchers for the first time were able to teach an industrial robot how to perform new tasks, by explaining the task in spoken language. Combining forces from cognitive neuroscience and industrial robotics, Peter Ford Dominey (INSERM/CNRS) and Sébastien Henry (Univ Lyon 1) made the link between language […]
One year after the success of the Paralympic Games in London, France will be hosting the World Handisport Athletics Championships this Friday 19 July in Lyon (lasting until 28 July, the World Handisport Athletics Championships. In Dijon, Gaëlle Deley, scientific officer of the Centre d’Expertise de la Performance and associate researcher in Inserm Unit 1093 […]
Salamandra robotica II, an amphibian robot created by the Bio-robotics Laboratory of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) will be presented at the Innorobot Show held in Lyon from 19 to 21 March. The team headed by Professor Auke Ijspeert has perfected this latest generation in collaboration with Jean-Marie Cabelguen INSERM Research Director in […]
The natural loss of hearing with age is no longer a secret today. The sixteenth “National Hearing Day” is aimed especially at the elderly. Retaining one’s hearing ability, by any means whatsoever, appears to be a new way of Aging Well. In the context of its citizens’ lectures, INSERM arranged a session on Thursday 14 […]
The aluminium salts used in the makeup of vaccines could have adverse effects on health. The metal could build up in the central nervous system and cause a rare disease known as macrophagic myofasciitis that can cause intense muscular pain, cognitive disorders and intense fatigue, among other symptoms. Romain Gherardi, Inserm researcher at the Inserm […]
“Oser vaincre” (Dare to win) is the slogan for the Telethon 2012 campaign that will start on December 7 and 8. Three million people in France are affected by 6,000 different rare diseases. These diseases, mostly genetic and disabling, had remained largely unknown for a long time. The aim of the Telethon is to put […]
