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2022.10.24
State-of-the-art super-resolution microscopes enable us to observe biological structures at resolutions approaching molecular scale. A good example is single...
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2022.10.28
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To celebrate the bicentenary of Louis Pasteur's birth and pay tribute to this scientist who was a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, the Institut Pasteur and...
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2022.11.29
Bacteria are prokaryotes, meaning that they are living organisms with no nucleus. As well as the DNA that enables them to live and develop, bacteria also...
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2022.12.19
The DNA variations that interest most scientists are very precise. A change to a single nucleotide (a DNA building block) can radically alter the nature of...
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2023.01.16
Very little is known about what happens when an individual’s genetic makeup doesn’t match their physical sex. This is manifested as a spectrum of conditions...
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2023.02.06
Our intestine contains hundreds of billions of bacteria: this is the gut microbiota. Ilya Mechnikov had proposed that an imbalance between the different...
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2023.02.20
The availability of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and the first antiviral drugs at the end of 2020 led to a reduction in the number of infections and the severity of...
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2023.04.11
Question science - medicine, from La lettre de l’Institut Pasteur (#120 issue) to be published in May 2023
Our immune system can naturally recognize and...
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2023.04.17
Launched in October 2020, the ComCor study investigates the environment, practices and places visited by people recently infected with SARS-CoV-2. The aim is...
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2023.04.25
Malaria is a disease caused by Plasmodium parasites. This infectious disease is potentially fatal. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 241...