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The last two years in scientific news
A study led by IMVA-HB/IDMIT researchers, published in NPJ Vaccines, has shown the influence of the delay between vaccinations (primary and booster) on the specific humoral immune response. This work also suggests the establishment of a trained immune memory.
Researchers from the SEPIA (CEA)-Sup'Biotech partnership laboratory and the Gly-CRRET (UPEC) laboratory have developed a genetic tool for the long-term expression of proteins in human brain organoids. This work, published in Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, concerns the modelling of a genetic form of frontotemporal dementia, a neurodegenerative disease with a tauopathic side similar to Alzheimer's disease.
Scientists from the Laboratory of Neurodegenerative Diseases (MIRCen/ François Jacob Institute of Biology) in collaboration with the Neurocentre Magendie (Inserm/University of Bordeaux) have highlighted the decisive role played by a metabolic pathway in memory disorders in Alzheimer's disease. Their work, published in Cell Metabolism, also shows that L-serine intake, in the form of a dietary supplement, restores the spatial memory that is affected early on in mouse models of the disease.
As part of an international partnership, a team from the Neurodegenerative Diseases Laboratory (MIRCen) has characterized the pathological effects of various alpha-synuclein aggregate strains in vivo. In their work, published in Acta Neuropathologica Communications, the researchers showed that the conformation of these aggregates plays a key role in their amplification and propagation in the brain.
An IRCM team (CEA/Inserm) has shown that exposure to low-dose ionizing radiation causes functional losses in human hematopoietic stem cells. Their results, published in Haematologica, suggest the need for complementary care during radiation therapy regimens.
In their work entitled Fastgenomics, the Dijon Bourgogne University Hospital, Inserm and the CEA's National Center of Human Genomics Research (CNRGH) studied a rapid high-throughput genome sequencing process in 30 hospitalized newborns. The team was able to reduce the time needed for this process from an average of 18 months to only a month and a half at most (38 to 49 days), thus enabling rapid diagnoses for two-thirds of the patients.
A new structure for aggregated alpha-synuclein has been determined at the atomic level using cryo-electron microscopy. The work, lead by a team from MIRCen's Neurodegenerative Diseases Laboratory, was published in the journal eLife. The determination of this previously undescribed structure opens new doors for the development of ligands specifically targeting alpha-synuclein aggregates in Parkinson's disease.
...or how finding the unique link may be a path toward curing gastric infections. In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers from LRIG (IRCM) identified a protein that is essential for an antibiotic resistance propagation pathway in the bacterium Helicobacter pylori.
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