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2025.05.22
Steroid hormones, or steroids, are a large family ranging from corticosteroids, such as cortisone, to sex hormones like progestogens, estrogens and androgens....
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2025.04.10
To navigate the labyrinth of genetic data, the head of the Algorithms for Biological Sequences Unit at Institut Pasteur has championed on bringing research...
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2025.01.27
Widely used by the food industry, emulsifiers – a type of food additive – are found in many daily foods (sliced bread, ice creams, crème fraîche, plant milks,...
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2025.01.17
Listeria monocytogenes mainly contaminates animal products, especially dairy products, as well as badly washed, undercooked or poorly stored vegetables....
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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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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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2023.04.03
We always marvel as we watch them grow, discover the world day by day and try to understand it. But how much do we know – or think we know – about what...
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2022.01.31
Infectious diarrhea represents a major public health problem at global level. Two forms of infectious diarrhea, shigellosis and bacillary dysentery, caused...
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2022.12.19
The DNA variations that interest most scientists are very precise. A change to a single nucleotide (a DNA building block) can radically alter the nature of...
Document de presse
2023.03.29
As we mark World Autism Awareness Day on Sunday April 2, 2023, this year the Institut Pasteur is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the first...