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© musée des Confluences – Bertrand Stofleth
The exhibition looks back at a shared history involving humans, animals and microorganisms, the history of...
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Philippe Bousso was initially interested in science and technology and chose to study at the demanding and highly prestigious École Polytechnique. But once...
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Between April and December 2022 in France, four pregnant women and one immunocompromised individual were infected with Listeria monocytogenes bacteria, which...
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"Carte blanche" for the Institut Pasteur and the French Academy of Sciences at the "Rendez-vous de l'histoire" festival in Blois...
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Malaria remains a major public health problem, with 241 million cases and 627,000 deaths worldwide in 2020, according to the latest WHO figures. Plasmodium...
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Epigenetics is the study of molecular mechanisms that modify gene expression without changing DNA sequences. Research on epigenetic variation is therefore...
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Candida albicans is a fungus found in most healthy individuals; it generally colonizes the mucosa in the digestive and genital tracts. But in some...
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2022.11.30
Calmodulin is a protein found in all living organisms, or at least those whose cells have a nucleus. "Calmodulin" literally means "calcium-modulated protein...