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Health - Life Sciences - 04.02.2025
Lou Gehrig’s disease or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: sleep alterations occurs prior to motor symptoms
Motoneurones (stained by immunohistochemistry for ChAT) of the lumbar section of the spinal cord in ALS mouse models. Scale 100 mm © Simon J Guillot, Daniel Beckett ,Matei Bolborea Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Charcot's disease, or Lou Gehrig's disease is a severe neurodegenerative disease that leads to progressive paralysis of muscles involved in voluntary movement.
Life Sciences - Health - 08.01.2025
Post-traumatic stress: brain plasticity, a key mechanism for trauma resilience
The Remember project provides new insights into post-traumatic stress disorder © Inserm Following a shocking, dangerous or frightening experience, such as a terrorist attack, many people develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In order to improve its management, numerous scientific studies are examining the neurobiological processes underlying the development of this disorder.
Health - 08.01.2025
A major advance in the management of avian influenza epidemics: a digital tool for better tracking of infected farms
Scientists from Toulouse's UMR IHAP (INRAE/ENVT) and the Netherlands' Wageningen Bioveterinary Research have developed a new tool for optimizing contact tracing in infected farms. This was published in the Journal Royal Society Interface on January 8, 2025 . Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) is a major threat to domestic poultry, causing considerable economic losses and requiring rapid intervention to limit its spread.
Health - 06.01.2025
Performance of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus surveillance in vaccinated farms
A study published in the international journal Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) by Toulouse-based scientists from UMR IHAP (INRAE/ENVT) demonstrates that enhanced event-based surveillance, based on weekly sampling of ducks found dead, is the most effective strategy for rapidly detecting the presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) virus in duck farms vaccinated against HPAI.
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