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2019.08.28
The year 2018 has been exceptional in several ways. It was marked by the celebration of the 130th anniversary of the Institut Pasteur and the arrival of a new...
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2019.07.12
Research efforts in recent years have highlighted that sex - being a woman or a man - can have a strong influence on how humans and animals respond to many...
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2019.06.13
An observational study conducted in a French hospital showed that human contact was responsible for 90 percent of the spread of one species of antibiotic-...
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2019.05.06
Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) can be responsible for severe cases of foodborne infection. In 10% of infected individuals, the spread of Shiga...
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2018.12.21
Bacteria make use of a number of natural resistance strategies to overcome antibiotics. And it seems that this bacterial toolbox may be much more varied than...
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2019.01.02
As antibiotics efficacy is under real threat, the World Health Organization warns that "one day no antibiotics may be left to treat common bacterial infections...
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2018.12.17
On December 11, 2018, the Institut Pasteur awarded the 20 students of the 2018 Pasteur iGEM team. They came back with a gold medal from the competition that...
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2018.08.06
Bacteria can be found everywhere on Earth – our bodies for instance are made up of as many bacteria as human cells – and yet these microorganisms, measuring...
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2018.03.23
The Escherichia coli bacterium is a major focus of research in biology. But the higher-order organization of its genome had yet to be investigated using...
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2017.12.19
Antibiotic resistance is considered by WHO to be "one of the most serious threats to global health, food security and development". In Cambodia, the misuse of...