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2025.03.08
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Did you know that only 20% of Wikipedia biographies are dedicated to women? This...
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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...
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2023.01.31
On June 28, 1871, Louis Pasteur filed an invention patent for a beer production process. He had observed that fermentation was caused by microorganisms, and...
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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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2023.06.28
Since the 2010s, researchers have been studying the molecular mechanisms underlying deafness of which certain types of so-called sensorineural deafness and...
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2023.06.05
To mark the anniversary of the discovery of HIV in 1983, the Institut Pasteur has decided to retrace the 40 years since this major scientific breakthrough (...
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2023.05.15
In the early 1980s, the first cases of a mysterious disease caused much ink to flow. In December 1982, the young researcher...
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2022.12.27
On December 27, 1822, Louis Pasteur was born to Jean-Joseph Pasteur, a tanner, and his wife Jeanne-Étiennette Pasteur. Two hundred years on, we celebrate the...
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2022.10.20
Although the mechanisms by which SARS-CoV-2 enters host cells are increasingly well documented, the direct molecular interactions between virus and host remain...
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2022.07.22
The team in the Hematology Department at Henri Mondor AP-HP Hospital, coordinated by Dr. Christine Robin, and scientists from the Institut Pasteur (the...