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2023.05.04
Bacteria are microorganisms that can assemble into transient communities. When this happens, they may form a biofilm, which is an ecosystem that can protect...
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2023.06.19
Hearing is the most frequently affected of the five major senses. The vast majority of auditory deficits affect the cochlea, the sensory organ of hearing,...
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2023.07.24
In 1885, Louis Pasteur successfully performed the first rabies vaccination on Joseph Meister, a 9-year-old shepherd from Alsace. A century and a half later,...
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2022.03.07
Drosophila are small flies that are widely used as an animal model in scientific research, especially in the field of genetics. But a study published...
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2022.01.31
Infectious diarrhea represents a major public health problem at global level. Two forms of infectious diarrhea, shigellosis and bacillary dysentery, caused...
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2021.11.24
Within (nearly) all of our cells, 23 pairs of chromosomes, encapsulated in the cell nucleus, encode the workings of the body. The stability of this genetic...
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2022.04.28
How do we track the dynamics of a disease, particularly in terms of its response to vaccines? A study published in Science Translational Medicine provides...
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2022.05.20
New genetic analyses of Latin Americans have revealed numerous insights into how indigenous peoples evolved before European contact, and how their genetics...
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2022.05.23
Researchers from Institut Pasteur and its partners have demonstrated for the first time the transmission mechanisms of resistance to methicillin, an...
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2022.07.22
Most bacterial species have a huge variety of strains, and antibiotic resistance, virulence and potential for transmissibility all vary from one to the next...