embryonic development
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2025.12.12
What if your heart had been built upside down?
Normally, the heart has four chambers: two atria at the top and two ventricles at the bottom. The right...
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2025.11.17
Why should pregnant women avoid cats?
In this video, Maëlwenn Hamon, a doctoral student at the Institut Pasteur working in Pauline Speder's team, explains how...
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2025.10.10
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....
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2025.08.27
First gene therapy trial in France to treat childhood deafness
The Audiogene trial aims to correct the deficiency in a gene responsible for congenital...
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2025.07.22
On June 12-13, 2025, the Institut Pasteur hosted the first international conference on the risks and challenges associated with the creation of what are...
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2025.07.15
The program is built around four strategic projects, designed to remove economic, social, and/or geographic barriers to education in life sciences and public...
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2025.06.03
Of every one thousand individuals living with HIV, a tiny fraction – fewer than five on average – are able to naturally control the virus. They are known as "...
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2025.05.22
Steroid hormones, or steroids, are a large family ranging from corticosteroids, such as cortisone, to sex hormones like progestogens, estrogens and androgens...
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2025.05.22
From São Paulo to Paris
Guilherme spent his childhood in Araçatuba, in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. He was born into a close-knit family, who supported...
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2025.05.21
Bacteria first emerged on Earth 3.5 to 4 billion years ago, quickly developing adaptation mechanisms allowing them to survive in the changing and sometimes...