Bacteria
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2023.03.30
Identifying the pathogens responsible for a disease outbreak can be a complicated task. From one generation to the next, each pathogen can mutate, and it can...
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2023.02.10
Robert Louis Stevenson once said that the journey was more important than the destination. For Caroline Demangel, the journey traveled has enabled her to...
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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...
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2023.01.12
Dengue, chikungunya, yellow fever, Zika – these are all names of diseases that we have learned to fear, but we don't always understand how they might be...
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2023.01.09
Bacteria are single-celled organisms that are capable of interacting with their external environment, for example by secreting molecules outside their cell...
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2022.12.13
Pierre-Marie Lledo is a determined neuro-optimist and is always willing to put the lessons learned from his discoveries into practice in his everyday life....
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2022.11.29
Bacteria are prokaryotes, meaning that they are living organisms with no nucleus. As well as the DNA that enables them to live and develop, bacteria also...
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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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2022.11.10
The ERC (European Research Council) funds exploratory research projects at the frontiers of knowledge in all fields of science and technology. The only...
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2022.10.27
Hospital-acquired infections caused by Clostridioides difficile represent a major health threat. In a recently published study, scientists describe the...