natural selection
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2026.03.25
Try this mental exercise for a moment: imagine what our world looked like 1.2 billion years ago. At that time, all land masses formed a single continent, the...
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2026.02.12
Infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) causes more than a million deaths each year, largely because of complications like cirrhosis and liver cancer. There...
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2026.02.06
In 2023, scientists from the Institut Pasteur discovered that natural killer (NK) cells can develop an immune memory against Streptococcus pneumoniae, also...
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2026.02.02
What if our immune system held the key to healing the brain?
For a long time, it was thought that the brain and the immune system were completely unrelated....
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2025.11.17
Scientists from Chimie ParisTech – PSL and the Institut Pasteur (Université Paris Cité) have published a discovery in the Journal of the American Chemical...
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2025.10.15
In 1965, Jacques Monod, Jeffries Wyman and Jean-Pierre Changeux published an article(1) that would transform molecular biology. It described their discovery...
Portrait
2025.10.10
Sarah Merkling had never dreamed of becoming a scientist – until the day when, as a young student, she was blown away by a biology class about genetics....
Portrait
2025.09.04
Exploring ecosystems with the family motorhome
Sebastian grew up in southern Germany. His parents were both teachers – his father taught biology and his...
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2025.08.27
First gene therapy trial in France to treat childhood deafness
The Audiogene trial aims to correct the deficiency in a gene responsible for congenital...
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2025.07.22
On June 12-13, 2025, the Institut Pasteur hosted the first international conference on the risks and challenges associated with the creation of what are...