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2026.05.26
The team led by Chiara Zurzolo in the Membrane Traffic and Pathogenesis Unit at the Institut Pasteur recently published a study in Nature Communications that...
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2026.05.26
#1- How many species of ticks are there in the world, and how many in France?
Ticks are arachnids (like spiders or scorpions) belonging to the subclass Acari...
Portrait
2026.05.11
Borneo, aged 16 – a genetics class that changed everything
The story begins in Pontianak, an Indonesian city on the island of Borneo, with a biology class that...
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2026.05.12
**Updated on May 22, 2026.**
** This text was translated using an AI-powered translation tool **
Hantaviruses comprise a large number of viruses whose...
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2026.05.07
Much like humans who can get sick when infected by a virus, bacteria have pathogenic challenges of their own-phages. These are viruses which infect and...
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2026.05.12
What I'm researching
My research involves studying the interactions between mosquitoes and viruses. When a mosquito bites us, it takes some of our blood to...
Report
2026.04.24
Since Edward Jenner understood that cowpox could provide immunity against smallpox and Louis Pasteur developed his rabies vaccine in the late 19th century,...
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2026.04.27
Read below the op-ed (in French) published in the French newspaper Le Parisien on April 26, 2026, on the occasion of World Vaccination Week.
Toutes les huit...
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2026.04.24
Live attenuated vaccines
Principle: a weakened or very similar version of the virus or bacteria is used. This weakened microbe is no longer capable of...