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Digital solutions for tackling mental health in cancer patients and their families: The ALTHEA project

Despite advances in cancer treatment, the growing global cancer burden underscores the need for comprehensive and supportive care to address the needs of patients and their families. However, access to psycho-oncological support remains often limited across healthcare systems. Th...

Sensitive reverse transcription-digital droplet PCR-based discrimination of hepatitis delta virus RNAs reveals differential effects of interferon-α on viral RNA species

Hepatitis delta virus (HDV) replication relies on the production of distinct viral RNA species, including genomic (HDV-G), antigenomic (HDV-AG) and mRNAs (HDV mRNAs), which differ in abundance and function. However, the lack of sensitive and quantitative approaches allowing their...

Assessment of infection prevention practices in office-based surgery: a multicentre regional audit

Abstract Background Office-based surgery (OBS) is increasingly used due to organizational constraints and perceived benefits. However, data on infection prevention and control (IPC) practices in OBS settings remain limited. This study aimed to assess the conditions in which OBS a...

Antibody-mediated immune surveillance as an organizing axis of gut microbiota structure

Abstract Background The symbiotic interplay between the immune system and the endogenous microbiome is essential for maintaining homeostasis. However, most microbiome research focuses primarily on associations between disease and microbial composition, often overlooking host–micr...

CRB3 and ARP2/3 regulate cell biomechanical properties to set epithelial monolayers for collective movement

Several cellular processes during morphogenesis, tissue healing or cancer progression involve collective cell migration. To set the cells for motion, there is an initial breaking of organization of the epithelial tissue that modifies the epithelial phenotype and axis of polarity....

Violence and vulnerability among women attending a hospital forensic medical unit in France: a cross-sectional study using hierarchical cluster analysis

Violence against women remains a global public health priority. Forensic Medical Units (FMUs) offer a critical setting to examine vulnerability profiles among victims, yet few studies have characterised the interplay between violence types, perpetrator relationships, and associat...

Computational identification and experimental validation of early glycinergic impairments in spinal muscular atrophy

Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by lower motor neuron (MN) loss, due to mutations or deletions in the Survival Motor Neuron 1 ( SMN1 ) gene. Increasing evidence implies mitochondrial dysfunctions in SMA, suggesting these org...

Everything you always wanted to know about sleep, but you were afraid to ask: expert concise guide and recommendations on assessing sleep-wake disturbances within a psychiatric context in contemporary times

OBJECTIVE: While disrupted sleep has long been linked to mental disorders there has been a notable decrease in interest and sleep-wake disorders have received low priority in psychiatric care. The aim of the paper was to present a concise guide for evaluating common sleep-wake di...

Molecular Control of Neural Stem Cell Quiescence in the Adult Zebrafish Telencephalon: Established Mechanisms and an Integrative Hypothesis

The zebrafish telencephalon is an excellent model for adult neurogenesis under physiological and regenerative conditions, as many pathways regulating neural stem cell behavior are conserved with mammalian neurogenic niches. Resident radial glial cells (RGCs) serve as neural stem...

Healthcare professionals’ views on expanding newborn screening with or without genomics in France: Results of the SeDeN-p2 study

Abstract Therapeutic advances and the rapid, cost-effective development of next-generation sequencing (NGS) have increased interest in expanding newborn screening (NBS) through genomics. The SeDeN-p2 study assessed the acceptability among healthcare professionals in France, of ex...

A common germline 3′ UTR variant controls DDIT4 translation efficiency and stress responses in cancer cells

Systematic strategies for identifying and classifying variants that directly modulate ribosome engagement are lacking. Here, we develop and extensively validate a pipeline to identify translation-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (tranSNPs) by integrating analysis of tot...

Early-warning surveillance of West Nile and Usutu viruses in wetland and larval habitat waters and in mosquito excreta using digital PCR

West Nile virus (WNV) and Usutu virus (USUV) are mainly avian mosquito-borne pathogens, increasingly cause human and equine disease in temperate regions. Mostly asymptomatic, current surveillance in France is reactive, based on clinical and veterinary reports, delaying signals fo...

Alpha-galactosylceramide as mRNA vaccine adjuvant modulates cellular immunity against tuberculosis and contributes to antigen-specific lung-associated T cells with a TRM-associated phenotype following prime-pull strategy

Tuberculosis (TB) remains the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent worldwide, highlighting the need for improved vaccines beyond the limited protection currently provided by the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine. Here we investigated the immunological impact...

Rapid estimation of structural brain disconnection from binary lesion masks using DeepDisco

Abstract Mapping how focal brain lesions disrupt structural connectivity is key to understanding cognition, behavior, and neurological outcomes. However, traditional diffusion tractography pipelines are computationally intensive, require specialized data and expertise, and remain...

Weighting of Spectral and Temporal Cues with n-of-m Cochlear Implant Strategies Depends on Voice Pitch

Abstract Purpose The relative contributions of spectral and temporal cues to voice pitch perception in cochlear implant (CI) users remain unclear. This study aimed to directly quantify these contributions in dynamic speech stimuli with clinical n -of- m processors. Methods Fundam...

Decline of chaperone-mediated autophagy in aging impairs macrophage clearance of senescent cells

Autophagy dysfunction and senescence are established drivers of aging, but their potential interaction remains poorly understood. Here we show that age-related decline of chaperone-mediated autophagy (CMA), a pathway for selective lysosomal protein degradation, changes senescent...

Estimation of the relative effectiveness and waning of the monovalent third dose of COVID-19 vaccine against hospital admission in France: a novel self-controlled case series analysis.

We present a novel application of the SCCS method for estimating the effectiveness and waning of the third dose of COVID-19 monovalent vaccine in France. We used data on individuals hospitalised for COVID-19 between September 2021 and February 2022 from the Système National des D...

Autoantibodies neutralizing type I IFNs underlie ~5% of herpes simplex encephalitis in adults.

Inborn errors of type I interferon (IFN-I) immunity account for ∼7-8% of herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) cases in young children, but the pathogenesis of HSE in adults is largely unknown. We report that IFN-I autoantibodies (auto-Abs) in serum/plasma samples drawn before, durin...

Integrated adipose tissue transcriptomic and miRNA remodeling identifies molecular pathways associated with residual cardiovascular risk after weight loss

Abstract Background Weight loss improves cardiometabolic health, yet substantial inter-individual variability remains in residual cardiovascular risk. Here, we investigated whether post-weight loss adipose tissue (AT) molecular remodeling is associated with this variability. Meth...

Determinants of failure of midazolam monotherapy during continuous deep sedation until death: evidence from a French cohort in a palliative care unit

Abstract Background Continuous deep sedation until death (CDSUD) is a legally regulated practice in France relying primarily on midazolam as first-line therapy. However, additional sedative agents are frequently required, and determinants of failure of midazolam monotherapy remai...