Portrait
2026.03.30
A childhood shaped by science and empathy
Guillemette Masse-Ranson was born in northern France before moving to Greater Paris when she was five. She was...
News
2026.03.25
Try this mental exercise for a moment: imagine what our world looked like 1.2 billion years ago. At that time, all land masses formed a single continent, the...
News
2026.03.12
Since its emergence, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has not stopped evolving. Each new variant accumulates mutations in its spike protein, the 'key' enabling it to...
News
2026.02.26
Salmonella enterica serovar Panama, one of the most common causative agents of non-typhoidal Salmonella disease in France's overseas territories, is...
Portrait
2026.02.09
From science fiction to the Institut Pasteur in Paris
At the age of twelve, Molly came across a science fiction novel in which a female scientist was cloned by...
News
2026.02.12
Infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) causes more than a million deaths each year, largely because of complications like cirrhosis and liver cancer. There...
News
2026.01.22
How does legionellosis develop in the early stages of infection? Which of the body's cells enable Legionella pneumophila to develop, and why? Scientists at...
News
2025.11.17
Scientists from Chimie ParisTech – PSL and the Institut Pasteur (Université Paris Cité) have published a discovery in the Journal of the American Chemical...
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....