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The last two years in scientific news
A team from the CEA François-Jacob Institute has demonstrated the preclinical efficacy of three vaccine candidates against chikungunya.
Joint damage in people infected with chikungunya remains poorly understood. Scientists from the CEA François-Jacob Institute and their partners have identified an actor of the antiviral immune response whose inhibition paradoxically reduces the severity of the symptoms.
A patient with severe sickle cell disease has undergone gene therapy developed at the CEA François-Jacob Institute. Two years after treatment, the remission of clinical signs was complete.
In a phase 2 clinical trial, scientists showed the efficiency of targeting cancer stem cells—an approach imagined and developed at the CEA François-Jacob Institute for the treatment of leukemia, chronic myeloid leukemia in particular.
Scientists at the CEA’s Institute of Cellular and Molecular Radiation Biology, in collaboration with INSERM, Université Paris-Sud, and international partners, have demonstrated a connection between the expression of the TRAIL gene, which plays a role in cell death, and the radiosensitivity of certain human T lymphocytes.
The network of planktonic organisms of this carbon sink has been described as a social network by an interdisciplinary team comprising oceanographers, biologists and computer experts mainly from the CNRS, UPMC, University of Nantes, VIB, EMBL and CEA.
Two French research teams have recently shown in a rodent model that overexpression of an enzyme capable of eliminating excess cholesterol in the brain can act in a beneficial way on the tau component of the disease to completely correct it.
Scientists have recently discovered a new type of giant virus in the same sample of 30,000-year old Siberian permafrost from which Pithovirus had already been isolated
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