Bacteria
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2026.06.09
Hidradenitis suppurativa is an extremely painful chronic skin condition experienced by up to 4% of the global population, with women most commonly affected....
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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...
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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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2026.04.24
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...
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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...
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2026.02.26
Salmonella enterica serovar Panama, one of the most common causative agents of non-typhoidal Salmonella disease in France's overseas territories, is...
Portrait
2026.02.09
From science fiction to the Institut Pasteur in Paris
At the age of twelve, Molly came across a science fiction novel in which a female scientist was cloned by...
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2026.02.06
In 2023, scientists from the Institut Pasteur discovered that natural killer (NK) cells can develop an immune memory against Streptococcus pneumoniae, also...
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2026.01.22
How does legionellosis develop in the early stages of infection? Which of the body's cells enable Legionella pneumophila to develop, and why? Scientists at...
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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...