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...
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
2026.05.05
In the twenty years since the tiger mosquito was first reported in mainland France in 2004, it has conquered four-fifths of the country. How has it been able...
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...
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...
News
2025.09.22
Human African trypanosomiasis, commonly known as sleeping sickness, is characterized by symptoms ranging from severe fatigue and skin signs to sleep...
News
2025.09.12
Although it has been eradicated in Europe, plague still circulates in several regions of the world. Hundreds of cases are reported every year in Madagascar,...
News
2025.08.27
First gene therapy trial in France to treat childhood deafness
The Audiogene trial aims to correct the deficiency in a gene responsible for congenital...
News
2025.07.11
Of the multiple mosquito species encountered globally, some act as vectors transmitting infectious diseases to humans throughout the world. Almost 3,500...