The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to two Americans, Eric Betzig and William Moerner, and a German, Stefan Hell, on Wednesday 8 October “for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy,” nanoscopy, as the jury said in its press release. The laureates developed two methods enabling microscopy on a nanometric scale, and hence the […]
The Nobel Prize of physiology or medicine 2014 is awarded to John O’Keefe, May-Britt and Edvard I. Moser for their work about for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain. May-Britt’s work, conducted with Edvard Moser as a long-term collaborator, includes the discovery of grid cells in the entorhinal cortex, as […]
For 40 years, the practice of caesarean section has become increasingly common all over the world. It is also associated with a higher risk of infectious complications for both the mother and child. In an article published in the specialist journal ACTA, Benedicte Coulme and Beatrice Blondel, who are researchers at Inserm in Unit 1153: […]
The chikungunya virus is an infectious arboviral disease from the family Togaviridae. It comes from tropical regions and is transmitted by Aedes mosquitos. The virus is contracted by the mosquito when it bites an infected individual. It then becomes a carrier and can transmit the disease by biting a healthy person. There is no curative […]
The 16th edition of the National Day of Screening for Skin Cancer will be held on Thursday, 22 May. It is organised by the French National Union of Dermatologists, with the support of the French National Cancer Institute (INCa). This day is an opportunity to recall the importance of prevention and monitoring in dermatology. The earlier cancer is […]
“An injustice to one is a threat to all,” to quote Montesquieu. Today, on behalf of the scientific community, we can only express our complete support for the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, the INRA, and our strong concern over the consequences of a court ruling made against it on 14 May last. The […]
Findings from the study of mobile telephone use and the development of brain tumours have been published in the journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine The effect of electromagnetic radio frequencies on humans remains controversial. Researchers from Inserm Unit 897, “Epidemiology and Biostatistics” (ISPED) in Bordeaux, have analysed the association between exposure to mobile telephone radio frequencies […]
For the last few days, several French cities have had to face episodes of air pollution by particulates, frequently exceeding alert threshold levels. Further information – On the Impact of air pollution on our health: Press release, “Large European study finds exposure to even low levels of air pollution during pregnancy increases risk of lower […]
A national trial coordinated by Dr Ivan Berlin at La Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital (AP-HP) and researchers from Inserm shows that nicotine replacement patches are not effective in helping pregnant women to stop smoking during their pregnancy. This work has been published in the British Medical Journal See the press release for further information (French version)
Today the Vaccine Research Institute (VRI) in Créteil near Paris started to recruit 100 volunteers to evaluate a preventive HIV candidate vaccine. An innovative vaccine trial was launched by the VRI and the French National Agency for Research on AIDS and Hepatitis (ANRS). It will be based in four centres. It will be the first […]
