Portrait
2026.03.30
A childhood shaped by science and empathy
Guillemette Masse-Ranson was born in northern France before moving to Greater Paris when she was five. She was...
News
2026.05.05
In the twenty years since the tiger mosquito was first reported in mainland France in 2004, it has conquered four-fifths of the country. How has it been able...
News
2026.03.12
Since its emergence, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has not stopped evolving. Each new variant accumulates mutations in its spike protein, the 'key' enabling it to...
Vidéo
2026.03.09
What is the current state of research into female cancers? That's the question we were asked on the street.
Aurélie Chiche, a researcher at the Institut...
News
2026.02.12
Infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) causes more than a million deaths each year, largely because of complications like cirrhosis and liver cancer. There...
News
2026.01.15
Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that affects nearly 125 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. While red...
News
2026.01.08
Alzheimer's disease affects nearly 1.4 million people in France and remains one of the most feared diseases of old age. Among its first signs: disruption of...
News
2025.11.12
This article was updated on August 5, 2026
#1 - What is behind the current resurgence in measles?
Insufficient vaccine coverage.
At the end of April 2025,...
Vidéo
2025.10.27
What if we could stop a disease before it affected humans?
That is the aim of the Sherlock project, an RNA test capable of detecting sleeping sickness in...
News
2025.10.15
In 1965, Jacques Monod, Jeffries Wyman and Jean-Pierre Changeux published an article(1) that would transform molecular biology. It described their discovery...