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2026.06.18
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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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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
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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2026.05.11
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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2026.05.07
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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2026.05.12
What I'm researching
My research involves studying the interactions between mosquitoes and viruses. When a mosquito bites us, it takes some of our blood to...
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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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2026.03.25
Try this mental exercise for a moment: imagine what our world looked like 1.2 billion years ago. At that time, all land masses formed a single continent, the...
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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...
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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...