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Candida albicans is a fungus found in most healthy individuals; it generally colonizes the mucosa in the digestive and genital tracts. But in some...
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Physical forces are essential to biological function, but their impact at the tissue level is not fully understood. The gut is under continuous mechanical...
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Calmodulin is a protein found in all living organisms, or at least those whose cells have a nucleus. "Calmodulin" literally means "calcium-modulated protein...
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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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2023.04.26
In 2022, Institut Curie and Institut Pasteur expressed their wish to develop a new collaborative research strategy, to speed up development of joint...
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An embryo is an organism in the early stages of development, from the formation of the egg after fertilization to the point at which the major organs are...
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Urinary tract infections affect nearly 150 million people each year, making them the second most common bacterial infection after respiratory infections....
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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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The brain is a complex organ with a surprising ability to adapt. The plasticity of synapses in particular allows neuron assemblies to modulate their functions...
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Natural killer (NK) cells are white blood cells that are capable of detecting and destroying tumor cells or cells infected with viruses. Their importance in...