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2025.03.05
Transfers of DNA molecules from one species to another occur relatively frequently on an evolutionary scale, but DNA transfer can also occur in other...
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2025.01.27
Widely used by the food industry, emulsifiers – a type of food additive – are found in many daily foods (sliced bread, ice creams, crème fraîche, plant milks,...
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2025.01.17
Listeria monocytogenes mainly contaminates animal products, especially dairy products, as well as badly washed, undercooked or poorly stored vegetables....
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2024.12.17
Sometimes referred to as the "100-day cough", whooping cough is a highly infectious respiratory infection that can cause serious illness in infants. Several...
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2024.12.19
In 1896, Charles Achard and Raoul Bensaude, both physicians within the Paris Public Hospital Network, identified an infection in patients presenting with...
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2024.12.06
Scientists from the National Reference Center for Vibrios and Cholera at the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with the Centre hospitalier de Mayotte, have...
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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...
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2024.11.04
The DNA contained in our cells is the molecule that carries genetic information and serves as the main basis for heredity. It is composed of nucleotides,...
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2024.09.18
Whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory disease that can be severe or even fatal for vulnerable individuals, such as unvaccinated infants. People...
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2024.09.05
The estimated length of all the DNA in the human body, if it were unraveled and placed end to end, is 60 billion kilometers, or 400 times the distance from...