Umbre virus
Report
2026.04.24
Since Edward Jenner understood that cowpox could provide immunity against smallpox and Louis Pasteur developed his rabies vaccine in the late 19th century,...
News
2026.04.27
Read below the op-ed (in French) published in the French newspaper Le Parisien on April 26, 2026, on the occasion of World Vaccination Week.
Toutes les huit...
News
2026.04.24
Live attenuated vaccines
Principle: a weakened or very similar version of the virus or bacteria is used. This weakened microbe is no longer capable of...
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
2026.02.12
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
2025.12.18
Updated on April 16, 2026.
Read the report on the 2025–2026 season for respiratory infections in France (in French), published by French Health Authorities...
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
2025.12.01
World AIDS Day: HIV is on the decline. Science, however, never stops.
Today, it is possible to live with HIV: treatments can block the virus until it becomes...
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.
#1 - What is...
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...