Population genetics
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2021.08.19
Monkeypox is an emerging and neglected infectious disease caused by the Monkeypox virus (MPXV). The disease has a similar clinical presentation to smallpox,...
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2021.07.23
In recent years, the scientific community has realized that different bacterial strains can play very different roles in an environment. The identification of...
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2021.08.26
How can we best organise on-site workplace and school attendance periods and remote work to slow the circulation of Sars-CoV-2? Is it better to separate...
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2021.07.27
The National Library of France (BnF) awarded the two Prix Pasteur Vallery-Radot 2021 to Jérôme Gros and Etienne Patin, researchers at the Institut Pasteur....
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2021.07.19
The Agence française de développement (AFD) and ANRS | Maladies infectieuses émergentes, in partnership with the Institut Pasteur, IRD, and laboratories across...
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2021.07.15
July 2021 marks the hundredth anniversary of the first vaccination of an infant with the BCG vaccine. Although tuberculosis is still one of the ten leading...
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2020.04.28
Following the emergence of COVID-19 disease in Wuhan in December 2019, syndromic surveillance was implemented in France from January 10, 2020. Two weeks later...
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2021.05.31
Diphtheria is a severe infection caused in humans by toxigenic strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae bacteria. If left untreated, it leads to death in 5 to 25...
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2021.06.01
The structure of DNA and chromosomes is a major focus of research, but still holds a number of mysteries. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS...
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2021.05.21
Dominant optic atrophy (DOA) is one of the most common forms of mitochondrial disease. It can be caused by genetic mutations in OPA1 resulting in mitochondrial...