Human evolutionary genetics
News
2025.12.18
Every winter, viruses affect millions of people in France, placing huge pressure on healthcare facilities. Given the diverse nature of these viruses and...
Vidéo
2025.12.12
What if your heart had been built upside down?
Normally, the heart has four chambers: two atria at the top and two ventricles at the bottom. The right...
Vidéo
2025.11.17
Why should pregnant women avoid cats?
In this video, Maëlwenn Hamon, a doctoral student at the Institut Pasteur working in Pauline Speder's team, explains how...
Vidéo
2025.11.12
Invisible to the naked eye... and yet, this tiny organism is your closest cousin!
Choanoflagellates are marine microorganisms that often live alone... but...
News
2025.11.12
This article was updated on December 2, 2025 with the latest epidemiological data from Santé publique France published on November 13, 2025.
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News
2025.11.06
Phages, or bacteriophages, are viruses that infect bacteria and play a central role in the dynamics, evolution and adaptation of microbial communities....
Vidéo
2025.10.27
What if we could stop a disease before it affected humans?
That is the aim of the Sherlock project, an RNA test capable of detecting sleeping sickness in...
News
2025.10.15
In 1965, Jacques Monod, Jeffries Wyman and Jean-Pierre Changeux published an article(1) that would transform molecular biology. It described their discovery...
Portrait
2025.10.10
Sarah Merkling had never dreamed of becoming a scientist – until the day when, as a young student, she was blown away by a biology class about genetics....
News
2025.10.03
According to Santé publique France, suspected cases of COVID increased by 37% in adults during the week of September 15-21, 2025 in mainland France, down...