Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale

Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) (National Institute of Health and Medical Research) is a French biomedical and public health research institution.


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Liver disease: Understanding it will enable the provision of better treatment

In this prospective study, led by Dr Richard Moreau, INSERM Research Director (Mixed Research Unit 773 "Centre de Recherche biomédicale Bichat-Beaujon"; INSERM/Université Paris Diderot) who is also a practitioner attached ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 18, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The surprising ability of blood stem cells to respond to emergencies

A research team of Inserm, CNRS and MDC lead by Michael Sieweke of the Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille Luminy (CNRS, INSERM, Aix Marseille Université) and Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin-Buch, ...

Immunology created Apr 10, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Producing new neurones under all circumstances: A challenge that is just a mouse away

Improving neurone production in elderly persons presenting with a decline in cognition is a major challenge facing an ageing society and the emergence of neuro-degenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease. INSERM and ...

Medical research created Apr 09, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

History of stroke and coronary heart disease—a fatal combination

(Medical Xpress)—Heart and cerebro-vascular disorders represent the two leading causes of death throughout the world. They are sometimes combined in a single patient and their combination represents both ...

Cardiology created Feb 19, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The skin aging regulator

Despite progress in regenerative medicine, with age, the skin loses its properties in an irreversible manner. The ATIP-Avenir team "Epidermal homeostasis and tumorigenesis" directed by Chloé Féral, an Inserm ...

Medical research created Jan 22, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Harmful effects of bisphenol A proved experimentally

Weak concentrations of bisphenol A are sufficient to produce a negative reaction on the human testicle. This has just been shown experimentally for the first time by René Habert and his colleagues (UMR Cellules ...

Health created Jan 22, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Detrimental effect of obesity on lesions associated with Alzheimer's disease

Researchers from Inserm and the Université Lille/Université Lille Nord de France have recently used a neurodegeneration model of Alzheimer's disease to provide experimental evidence of the relationship between obesity and ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia created Jan 07, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Why good resolutions about taking up a physical activity can be hard to keep

Physical inactivity is a major public health problem that has both social and neurobiological causes. According to the results of an Ipsos survey published on Monday 31 Dec., the French have put "taking up ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Jan 04, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Auto-immune disease: The viral route is confirmed

Why would our immune system turn against our own cells? This is the question that the combined Inserm/CNRS/ Pierre and Marie Curie University/Association Institut de Myologie have strived to answer in their "Therapies for ...

Neuroscience created Dec 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The role of the innate immune cells in the development of type 1 diabetes

Julien Diana and Yannick Simoni of the "Immune Mechanisms in Type 1 Diabetes," Inserm/Université Paris Descartes, directed by Agnès Lehuen, have just published the results of their work on type 1 diabetes in the Nature Me ...

Diabetes created Dec 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A promising clinical trial to reduce the severity of autistic disorders

Although this therapy is not curative, it nevertheless reduced the autistic disorders' severity in three-quarters of the children. The researchers have filed a request for authorisation to perform a multi-centre European ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Dec 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Improving chemotherapy effectiveness by acting on the immune system

An Inserm team in Dijon directed by François Ghiringhelli is to publish an article this week in the Nature Medicine review. The article suggests that two chemotherapy drugs frequently used to treat digestive and breast cancers ...

Immunology created Dec 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The radical restructuring of brain networks in comatose patients

Researchers from Inserm, CNRS and the Université Joseph Fourier in Grenoble, in collaboration with Cambridge university, Strasbourg university and clinical practitioners from the Strasbourg University Hospital Centre, have ...

Neuroscience created Dec 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Predicting the age at menopause of women having suffered from childhood cancers

This study provided important data about the fertility window of women who had suffered from childhood cancer and information concerning the associated risk factors, but did not confirm the greater risk of premature menopause ...

Cancer created Dec 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new development in the relief of spasms related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease with an occurrence rate in France similar to multiple sclerosis (two to three new cases per year for every 100,000 residents). It has a specific affect on ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Nov 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0