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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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2023.04.11
Question science - medicine, from La lettre de l’Institut Pasteur (#120 issue) to be published in May 2023
Our immune system can naturally recognize and...
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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...
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2023.01.24
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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2023.01.16
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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2022.11.02
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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2022.09.01
Scientists have identified two proteins involved in the invasion of glioblastoma, a type of tumor that affects some brain cells. Targeting the action of these...
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2022.08.24
The intestinal mucosa is a key site for interaction and exchange with the external environment. It is therefore under constant surveillance from the immune...
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2022.07.11
Most of our tissues are constantly renewed and needs to get rid of dying cells without affecting their organisation. A newly identified mechanism is...
Portrait
2022.06.24
It's a day of strikes in Paris and the French capital is virtually paralyzed, but it will take more than that to stop Sandrine Etienne-Manneville from arriving...