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January 13 2021
Platelets are commonly used in clinical applications. In particular, they are known to stimulate the repair properties of mesenchymal stem cells, these effects being usually attributed to the many growth factors that they release following their activation. The study headed by Anne-Marie Rodriguez with Jennyfer Levoux, Alexandre Prola and Peggy Lafuste as first co-authors […]
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January 6 2021
In an article available here, published on January 1st in Science Advances, the comparative medical genetics group of the BNMS team reveals an original mechanism by which the content of cardiolipin, a phospholipid present in the inner membrane of mitochondria, controls the coupling efficiency between the oxidation of energy substrates and the phosphorylation of ADP […]
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December 9 2020
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can extract complex information from visual data. Histopathological images of cancers indeed contain a very large amount of information that human observers can only partially understand. Thus, AI allows a thorough analysis of digitized histological slides and offers a wide range of clinically relevant applications, such as the identification of prognostically […]
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December 1 2020
Ophélia Godin is an epidemiologist by training, recently recruited at INSERM as a CRCN researcher at the Mondor Institute for Biomedical Research in Marion Leboyer’s team “Translational Psychiatry”. She did her thesis in Public Health at the University of Paris 11 on the cerebral modifications visible on MRI of dementia in the elderly and has […]
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November 26 2020
The management of the EFS has recently published an article highlighting 4 former UPEC Master 2 students (Marion Pinheiro, Louise Pannetier, Latifa Ben Hassen and Justine Coombs) who did their internship with the France Pirenne team of our Institute. Supervised by Benoît Vingert and Marie Tamagne, their research work on post-transfusion alloimmunization has resulted […]
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November 19 2020
Topotecan is currently the only drug approved in Europe in a second-line setting for the treatment of small cell lung cancer. This study led by Prof. Christos Chouaid (Department of Pneumology at the CHI de Créteil – IMRB U955, Bastuji-Garin team) aimed to determine whether the carboplatin plus etoposide doublet was superior to Topotecan […]
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September 16 2020
The largest European initiative to accelerate the development of therapies for COVID-19 and future coronavirus threats was launched in Brussels on August 18. CARE (Corona Accelerated R&D in Europe) is a €77.7 million European public-private consortium of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) created to accelerate the development of therapies for Covid-19 and coronaviruses. Professor […]
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August 3 2020
VRI (Vaccine Research Institute)/ INSERM/UPEC (U955, IMRB) in collaboration with several Inserm and IRD teams has just published a study in Nature Communications on 24 July showing that Ebola survivors suffer serious immune system sequelae two years after their disease. Continuing to wreak havoc in the Democratic Republic of Congo four years after the […]
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July 4 2020
The École nationale vétérinaire d’Alfort is pleased to welcome within its new research platform, the Auguste Chauveau building, the start-up “Encefa” to develop a promising scientific partnership in terms of innovation and research on neurodegenerative and inflammatory diseases. The start up “Encefa” integrated, in June, the premises of our platform dedicated to research in […]
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July 1 2020
There’s more news on the Imaging Platform. The platform has installed a staining automaton (Gemini AS) for histology. During September, new staining will be possible: the Sirius Red coloration, the coloration of May-Grünwald Giemsa, the coloration in Periodic Acid Shiff. the Haematoxylin Eosin staining will also be performed with the automaton. Sirius […]
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June 19 2020
The molecular cause of sickle cell disease is the polymerization of mutant hemoglobin S during deoxygenation, which is the cause of the multiple attacks of the disease. The amount of fibres in equilibrium and the kinetics of fibre formation both depend on the concentration of haemoglobin S and the partial pressure of oxygen. Pablo […]
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June 15 2020
The imaging facility is pleased to announce the arrivals of its new Zeiss LSM 900 confocal microscope with Airyscan2 to replace the LSM510. The LSM 900 will be operational as of June 22nd. The Zeiss confocal LSM 900 is part of the latest Zeiss confocal family. The wide range of objectives (long working distance […]
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May 29 2020
The family Bunyaviridae is a large but unfamiliar group of viruses with more than 300 members with a spherical and helical envelope. Viruses of this family can infect a wide range of hosts, from mosquitoes to marsupials and from thrips to tomatoes. Several of the Bunyaviridae cause serious disease in humans; they represent a growing […]
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May 18 2020
SVS (Sciences et Vie de la Santé) Doctoral School provides the thesis projects proposed by certain teams of our Institute, among others. Here are the titles with the respective leaders and their associated teams. 1) Cellular origin of spine deformity in a new murine model of Neurofibromatosis type 1 (Céline Colnot, équipe Relaix) 2) […]
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May 12 2020
UPEC’s EUR (University Research School) LIVE (Life Trajectories & Health Vulnerability) is calling for applications for doctoral scholarships in the following Doctoral Schools, ED Life and Health Sciences (SVS), ED Organisations, Markets, Institutions (OMI), ED Sciences, Engineering and Environment (SIE) and ED Public Health (SP). Together, UPEC, Inserm and CNRS will study health vulnerability […]
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May 5 2020
ISO 9001 certification defines a series of requirements concerning the implementation of a quality management system in an organization, whatever its size and sector of activity. In 2011 the flow cytometry platform was the first platform to receive this certification as well as the processes supporting maintenance and health & safety, followed three years […]
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