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Paludisme : identification d’une machinerie moléculaire essentielle à la transmission par le moustique

En combinant une approche génétique originale à une technique de microscopie électronique tridimensionnelle, une équipe de chercheurs a identifié un complexe de protéines essentiel à la transmission du paludisme. Ce complexe, appelé AMA1-RON, est nécessaire non seulement pour l’invasion des globules rouges, ...

11 Jul 2022 | Immunology, inflammation, infectiology and microbiology

Is Our Stubbornness Caused by Confirmation Bias?

The way in which people make decisions can sometimes seem reckless or even totally irrational. One explanation for this behavior is that humans tend to prefer information that confirms their beliefs and overlook that which contradicts them. This is a phenomenon called ...

14 Sep 2017 | Neurosciences, cognitives sciences, neurology and psychiatry

Osteoarthritis and metabolic disease: a “joint” therapeutic target?

Pour la première fois, des chercheurs du laboratoire de recherche « Ingénierie moléculaire et physiopathologie articulaire » (Cnrs/Université de Lorraine) et du laboratoire « Défaillances cardiovasculaires aiguë et chronique » (Inserm/Université de Lorraine) à Nancy, ont décrit le développement spontané de ...

21 Jun 2017 | Circulation, metabolism, nutrition

MS : using MRI to predict relapse

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune inflammatory disease of the central nervous system. It generally affects young people, in whom it is the leading cause of non-traumatic motor disability. This disability develops either progressively or in the form of relapses interspersed with ...

24 May 2017 | Neurosciences, cognitives sciences, neurology and psychiatry

Malaria: new insights into the mechanisms of parasite entry into liver cells

Malaria remains a major cause of mortality in the world, especially in Africa. The disease is caused by Plasmodium parasites, which are transmitted by mosquitoes. ...

16 May 2017 | Immunology, inflammation, infectiology and microbiology

Depression, cardiovascular risk… and the class struggle

Depression is not just one of the world’s most incapacitating illnesses - it also comes with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, particularly that of the coronary arteries (angina and heart attack). ...

07 Apr 2017 | Neurosciences, cognitives sciences, neurology and psychiatry

Measuring gray matter to predict recovery from coma

Predicting recovery from coma following cardiac arrest remains a question to which physicians do not have an exact response. When - and if - a critical care patient will recover consciousness is evaluated essentially by means of recurrent clinical examinations and the ...

28 Mar 2017 | Neurosciences, cognitives sciences, neurology and psychiatry