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2021.05.21
Dominant optic atrophy (DOA) is one of the most common forms of mitochondrial disease. It can be caused by genetic mutations in OPA1 resulting in mitochondrial...
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2020.08.04
Resistance to artemisinin, the main component of current antimalarial treatments recommended by WHO, is widespread in South-East Asia, but has not been...
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2020.10.24
α1β2γ2 GABAA receptors mediate most inhibitory synaptic transmission in the brain, and are the target of widely used therapeutic drugs such as benzodiazepines...
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2020.10.17
Ludovic Deriano’s Unit studied cells mutated for NHEJ, the canonical repair pathway for DNA double-strand break. The researchers showed that those transformed...
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2021.05.03
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Emerging and re-emerging viruses are key players among the different pathogens that have caused recent epidemics, as attested by several...
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2020.02.04
The results of a study from researchers from Institut Pasteur illustrate how small non-coding RNAs can act as epigenetic molecules capable of transmitting...
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2021.03.23
SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, is capable of infecting some species, while others are naturally resistant to it. This determines the "host...
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2020.12.08
The Georges, Jacques and Elias Canetti Prize is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. The winner of this 2020 edition is Mélanie Hamon, a scientist and...
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2020.12.01
Cardiac asymmetry established during embryonic development is critical to heart function. 1% of all newborns are affected by a heart defect, which in France...
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2020.11.30
Autoinflammatory diseases, like autoimmune diseases, are disorders caused by immune system dysfunction. They develop into chronic inflammatory diseases....