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2024.07.04
What precise mechanisms do coronaviruses use to infect us? More than four years after the infamous SARS-CoV-2 emerged in humans, many scientists are still...
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2024.05.30
In May 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) released its updated list of the main antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales...
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2024.05.22
There is an urgent need to include monitoring of microbial ecosystems in the environmental narrative
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2024.05.03
On April 26, 2024, the World Health Organization held a high-level meeting at the Institut Pasteur to highlight the importance of tackling meningitis, a...
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2022.07.11
In particular, the year 2021 was again marked by the COVID-19 epidemic. Over the years 2020 and 2021, this represents more than 200 scientific publications...
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2022.10.05
"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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2022.10.17
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...
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2022.11.24
What does the term "toxin" mean? Louis Pasteur did not yet know when he identified bacteria as the cause of putrefaction in 1880. In his review article...
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2023.01.24
Our gut contains thousands of billions of microorganisms, many more than the number of cells that make up our body. These microorganisms form what is known...