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2023.03.22
The official WHO announcement regarding a novel circulating coronavirus, later named SARS-CoV-2, was made on January 9, 2020. The virus that led to the COVID...
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2023.01.31
The European Research Council (ERC) provides funding for scientific research in Europe by means of various grants. The aim is to attract the best...
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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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2023.01.06
An Institut Pasteur team has successfully developed a pentavalent vaccine against the five pathogenic arenaviruses circulating in South America and tested it...
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2023.01.16
Very little is known about what happens when an individual’s genetic makeup doesn’t match their physical sex. This is manifested as a spectrum of conditions...
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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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2023.01.02
In addition to the nucleus containing the vast majority of genetic information, human cells also contain organelles that perform specific functions. Some of...
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2022.12.19
The DNA variations that interest most scientists are very precise. A change to a single nucleotide (a DNA building block) can radically alter the nature of...
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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...
Portrait
2022.09.22
It's hard to miss this pair on the Institut Pasteur campus in Paris. Obviously they're twins, but there's more to them than that. Even a brief encounter with...