molecular mechanisms
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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...
Document de presse
2022.10.19
Researchers from the Institut Pasteur, McMaster University and the University of Chicago have identified genes that protected some individuals against the...
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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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2022.10.17
Candida albicans is a fungus found in most healthy individuals; it generally colonizes the mucosa in the digestive and genital tracts. But in some...
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2022.10.12
Epigenetics is the study of molecular mechanisms that modify gene expression without changing DNA sequences. Research on epigenetic variation is therefore...
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2022.10.03
Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters are protein cofactors that are essential for life. They are thought to have formed spontaneously before the emergence of life in...
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2022.02.23
In May 2020, while the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak was coming to an end in France, initial reports emerged of patients with some persistent symptoms...
Portrait
2022.09.22
It's hard to miss this pair on the Institut Pasteur campus in Paris. Obviously they're twins, but there's more to them than that. Even a brief encounter with...
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2022.09.21
A study by an international group of researchers* introduces a new neurocomputational model of the human brain that could shed light on how the brain develops...
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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...