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2024.09.05
The estimated length of all the DNA in the human body, if it were unraveled and placed end to end, is 60 billion kilometers, or 400 times the distance from...
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2024.07.11
Leptospirosis is a bacterial disease transmitted by animals (a zoonosis). It is present worldwide, especially in tropical regions. The recent re-emergence of...
Report
2024.06.27
Adaptation is a universal phenomenon. It occurs whenever anything exceeds its natural limit – examples include microbial resistance, scientific innovation and...
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2024.06.25
The Institut Pasteur, an independent, non-profit international research institute, is the world leader in the research of viruses and micro-organisms, as...
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2022.08.05
RNA viruses, which include influenza viruses, SARS-CoV-2 (which causes COVID-19) and HIV, are one of the major threats that the immune system has to deal...
Portrait
2024.05.21
Philippe Bousso was initially interested in science and technology and chose to study at the demanding and highly prestigious École Polytechnique. But once...
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2024.05.06
Between April and December 2022 in France, four pregnant women and one immunocompromised individual were infected with Listeria monocytogenes bacteria, which...
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2022.07.11
In particular, the year 2021 was again marked by the COVID-19 epidemic. Over the years 2020 and 2021, this represents more than 200 scientific publications...
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2022.07.09
The significant focus on COVID in labs did not prevent major breakthroughs in other key fields.
What...
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2022.10.05
"Carte blanche" for the Institut Pasteur and the French Academy of Sciences at the "Rendez-vous de l'histoire" festival in Blois...