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2022.10.24
State-of-the-art super-resolution microscopes enable us to observe biological structures at resolutions approaching molecular scale. A good example is single...
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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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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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2023.02.20
The availability of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and the first antiviral drugs at the end of 2020 led to a reduction in the number of infections and the severity of...
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2022.09.26
The acerola or Barbados cherry is a tropical fruit native to South America and also grown in the French West Indies and Réunion. It is not exported due to its...
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2024.03.27
Since the 2010s, immunotherapy has rapidly gained ground as a form of treatment for cancer. There are now several different types of immunotherapy, each...
Portrait
2024.01.15
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood." These words from Marie Curie neatly sum up the philosophy and career of Sarah Dellière. She is...
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2023.12.19
Flaviviruses are pathogens transmitted by vectors, either insects like mosquitoes or arachnids like ticks. In Europe, the tick is the vector that transmits the...
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2023.11.16
Antibiotics are drugs used to fight infections caused by bacteria. They have saved and continue to save millions of lives every year, but their effectiveness...
Document de presse
2023.06.02
The aim of immunotherapy strategies is to use cells in the patient's own immune system to destroy tumor cells. CAR T cell therapy is an immunotherapy that is...