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2024.09.05
The estimated length of all the DNA in the human body, if it were unraveled and placed end to end, is 60 billion kilometers, or 400 times the distance from...
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2024.07.18
In November 2023, eighty-four organoids were sent into space aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The project called “Cerebral Ageing,” launched in...
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2024.05.30
In May 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) released its updated list of the main antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales...
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2022.08.05
RNA viruses, which include influenza viruses, SARS-CoV-2 (which causes COVID-19) and HIV, are one of the major threats that the immune system has to deal...
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2024.05.06
Between April and December 2022 in France, four pregnant women and one immunocompromised individual were infected with Listeria monocytogenes bacteria, which...
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2022.07.08
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2022.07.09
The significant focus on COVID in labs did not prevent major breakthroughs in other key fields.
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2022.09.01
Malaria remains a major public health problem, with 241 million cases and 627,000 deaths worldwide in 2020, according to the latest WHO figures. Plasmodium...
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2023.01.24
Our gut contains thousands of billions of microorganisms, many more than the number of cells that make up our body. These microorganisms form what is known...
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2023.03.06
Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease that affects several mammal species including humans. Leishmania, the parasites responsible, have a life cycle that...