L’accès à de nombreux médicaments, comme des analgésiques courants ou des traitements anticancéreux, est menacé par la vague d’extinction de la biodiversité dans le monde. Car soixante mille plantes et champignons sont utilisés pour leur valeur médicinale. 40 % d’entre eux sont directement menacés d’extinction, mettant en péril nos approvisionnements
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Dominique Costagliola is Deputy Director of the Pierre-Louis Institute of Epidemiology and Public Health (Sorbonne University, Inserm). Member of the French Academy of Sciences, she is a member of the scientific board of the REACTing consortium. She gives an update on Covid-19 therapies still in the pipeline. The results of the studies that have been conducted
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The coronavirus of Chinese origin is spreading, triggering epidemics in many countries at the same time, and now threatens to spread around the world like a full-blown pandemic. All the governments of the states in which patients have been identified are announcing that the spread is inevitable and that it is
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The giant of the pharmaceutical industry, the Pfizer laboratory, has long since developed a powerful anti-inflammatory, Enbrel. Researchers at the laboratory have discovered that this product would reduce the development of Alzheimer's disease by 64 %. A considerable figure that could cure millions of patients worldwide. Or
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Fake" drugs are flooding the world market, causing tragic news stories. In the face of this scourge, the struggle is being organized in the name of access for all, in the North as well as in the South, to quality, carefully controlled medicines. But the reality is complex, and this anti-counterfeiting crusade is not a simple one.
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In China, Western pharmaceutical multinationals still have a bright future ahead of them. But beware of the local industry, which no longer wants to confine itself to subcontracting and generics, but is in turn banking on quality and innovation. With a local pharmaceutical market estimated at 106 billion euros
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Cet automne, le Palais de la découverte propose à tous de ressentir le grand frisson du poison. Réunies pour la première fois en France, une trentaine d’espèces animales vivantes qui figurent, par leur venin, parmi les plus dangereuses au monde, seront présentés au public : serpents et araignées mais aussi
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Morphine and codeine painkillers, taxol (anticancer), artemisinin (antimalarial) or aspirin... All these drugs have the particularity of having been discovered in plants or being derived from them. In fact, even today, as for millennia, the environment still provides us with most of the compounds that enable us to treat ourselves. To identify
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Scientists at the University of Lincoln in the United Kingdom have developed a new technique to coat gold nanoparticles with a specific protein so that they can be used to address a drug that will target a specific area of the body, such as a cancerous tumour, very precisely. Gold nanoparticles are
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Le Luxturna, un médicament contre la dégénérescence héréditaire de la rétine pouvant évoluer vers la cécité totale, sera vendu 850.000 dollars aux Etats-Unis, ce qui en fait l’un des traitements les plus chers au monde. Il est administré en dose unique, a précisé son fabricant, la société de biotechnologies
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We know that the giants of the web, Amazon in mind, dream of using drones to deliver their customers at home. Unfortunately for these companies, most Western countries drastically restrict the conditions of use and flight of civilian drones. A Californian startup had the idea to go elsewhere. It's a...
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Santé immunitaire : la résistance aux antibiotiques tuent de plus en plus, selon le second ouvrage d’Antoine Andremont sur le sujet. Le 18 Novembre dernier c’était la « Journée Européenne sur les antibiotiques », une initiative du Centre Européen de Contrôle des Maladies pour faire comprendre que ces médicaments miracles
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