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2023.03.06
Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease that affects several mammal species including humans. Leishmania, the parasites responsible, have a life cycle that...
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2023.03.30
Identifying the pathogens responsible for a disease outbreak can be a complicated task. From one generation to the next, each pathogen can mutate, and it can...
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2023.07.24
In 1885, Louis Pasteur successfully performed the first rabies vaccination on Joseph Meister, a 9-year-old shepherd from Alsace. A century and a half later,...
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2022.05.20
New genetic analyses of Latin Americans have revealed numerous insights into how indigenous peoples evolved before European contact, and how their genetics...
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2022.07.05
Mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 virus have led to the emergence of variants of concern, like Alpha, Delta, and more recently Omicron. These strains contain...
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2022.02.16
HIV controllers are rare patients who naturally control HIV replication in the absence of antiretroviral therapy. These patients are known to harbor...
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2021.12.21
Darwinian evolution plays a central yet poorly understood role in human disease. Iterations between genetic mutation and environmental selection drive cancer...
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2021.10.05
Antibiotic resistance is a major public health issue and an increasingly serious threat. Besides developing effective new drugs to fight single and multidrug...
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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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2023.09.05
This article is the third in a series devoted to the hopes of HIV-AIDS research, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the identification of the virus...