Jean Castex
News
2020.12.01
Cardiac asymmetry established during embryonic development is critical to heart function. 1% of all newborns are affected by a heart defect, which in France...
News
2020.11.26
Presbycusis, or age-related hearing loss, involves genetic and environmental factors. A genomic analysis can identify gene variants whose pathogenicity...
News
2020.11.09
Pathogenic Leptospira are responsible for leptospirosis, a disease that occurs in many world regions. Leptospirosis is a zoonosis, in other words it affects...
News
2020.10.21
Between September 2018 and March 2019, a cholera epidemic took place in Zimbabwe, causing 10 000 cases and 69 deaths. The Enteric Bacterial Pathogens Unit at...
News
2020.10.21
Thanks to the collection of cholera vibrio strains from the National Reference Centre for Vibrio and Cholera (hosted by the Enteric Bacterial Pathogens Unit at...
News
2020.10.15
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded 11 grants to establish the...
Document de presse
2020.09.21
Cocaine addiction is a chronic disorder with a high rate of relapse for which no effective treatment is currently available. Scientists from the Institut...
News
2020.07.20
On July 16, the i-Lab 2020 innovation competition unveiled the names of 73 winners, which this year included the D4Zin (Grand Prix) and AVATAR MEDICAL projects...
Document de presse
2020.07.27
Resistance to artemisinin, the main component of the current antimalarial treatments recommended by WHO, is already widespread in South-East Asia, but it had...
Document de presse
2020.07.15
Which patients will develop a severe form of Covid-19? This is a key question that needs to be answered to improve the individual management and prognosis of...