mucous surfaces
Portrait
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...
News
2026.03.12
Since its emergence, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has not stopped evolving. Each new variant accumulates mutations in its spike protein, the 'key' enabling it to...
News
2026.02.12
Infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) causes more than a million deaths each year, largely because of complications like cirrhosis and liver cancer. There...
Vidéo
2026.01.19
Did you know that some cancer cells crush their neighbors?
It's a real battle of forces going on inside our tissues!
Tumor cells become harder and more...
News
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...
News
2025.07.25
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection is the leading cause of acute hepatitis, each year affecting approximately 20 million people worldwide and resulting in 30,...
Vidéo
2025.05.12
Lyme borreliosis: messenger RNA, a promising new vaccine lead?
Valérie Choumet and her team at the Institut Pasteur have obtained promising results for a new...
Document de presse
2024.11.21
With the rapid development of antibiotics in the 1930s, phage therapy – using viruses known as bacteriophages or phages to tackle bacterial infections – fell...
News
2024.06.27
Intermittent fasting has become a popular practice in recent years. It is known to have beneficial health effects – several studies1, 2, 3 have shown that...
News
2024.05.22
There is an urgent need to include monitoring of microbial ecosystems in the environmental narrative
Philippe...