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2023.05.27
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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2022.01.17
Antimicrobial resistance remains a major public health issue with repercussions for several infectious diseases. Research on this issue is one of the...
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2021.10.19
Although everyone knows about antibiotics, which we take to tackle bacterial infections, we tend not to realize that some bacteria are capable of producing...
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2022.07.05
Mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 virus have led to the emergence of variants of concern, like Alpha, Delta, and more recently Omicron. These strains contain...
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2021.10.18
Cells in our bodies communicate among themselves through chemical molecules that they release and perceive in their environment. However, our organs are not...
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2022.10.28
Lieu: The Royal Society 6-9 Carlton House Terrace London SW1Y 5AG United Kingdom
To celebrate the bicentenary of Louis Pasteur's birth and pay tribute to this scientist who was a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, the Institut Pasteur and...
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2022.11.29
Bacteria are prokaryotes, meaning that they are living organisms with no nucleus. As well as the DNA that enables them to live and develop, bacteria also...
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2022.12.19
The DNA variations that interest most scientists are very precise. A change to a single nucleotide (a DNA building block) can radically alter the nature of...
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2023.01.16
Very little is known about what happens when an individual’s genetic makeup doesn’t match their physical sex. This is manifested as a spectrum of conditions...
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2023.02.06
Our intestine contains hundreds of billions of bacteria: this is the gut microbiota. Ilya Mechnikov had proposed that an imbalance between the different...