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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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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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2022.08.25
Scientists at the Institut Pasteur demonstrated in 2003 that there is a genetic component in autism. The same team has now studied the impact of various...
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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...
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2022.07.05
Several factors determine the evolutionary success of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern. A recent publication looks into the factors influencing this success –...
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2022.05.20
An international publication, led by a researcher from the Institut Pasteur, provides the most comprehensive chronology of genetic adaptations in the Latin...
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2022.04.11
Passionate about the transmission of genetic diseases, Roukaya YAAKOUBI is doing her thesis at the Institut Pasteur de Tunis on primary immune deficiencies (...
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2022.03.29
It all started with a veterinarian and a cross-eyed lion
Jean-Claude Manuguerra was 7 when he decided that he wanted to become a veterinarian, to "save animals...
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2022.03.23
In a new study, scientists from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS demonstrate that admixture, a pervasive phenomenon in recent millennia, has enabled human...
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2022.02.16
Some rare HIV-infected patients are able to keep the viral load low enough not to require treatment. A study by researchers at the Pasteur Institute and...