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A particularly sneaky parasite — Plasmodium vivax can lie dormant in the liver for weeks or months before triggering a relapse.
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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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The team led by Chiara Zurzolo in the Membrane Traffic and Pathogenesis Unit at the Institut Pasteur recently published a study in Nature Communications that...
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Borneo, aged 16 – a genetics class that changed everything
The story begins in Pontianak, an Indonesian city on the island of Borneo, with a biology class that...
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2026.02.16
“Do you offer practical training courses for biologists on various topics in medical biology?”
This is the question we were asked on the street.
Monica Sala,...
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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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2026.01.26
What if our brains could repair themselves?
This dream is still out of reach for humans... But for a small tropical fish, the zebrafish, it's already a reality...
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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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2026.01.12
Did you know that your immune system starts developing before you are even born?
In your body, certain cells called macrophages (literally “big eaters”) work...
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Sarah Merkling had never dreamed of becoming a scientist – until the day when, as a young student, she was blown away by a biology class about genetics....