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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...
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2023.07.24
In 1885, Louis Pasteur successfully performed the first rabies vaccination on Joseph Meister, a 9-year-old shepherd from Alsace. A century and a half later,...
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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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2021.11.24
Within (nearly) all of our cells, 23 pairs of chromosomes, encapsulated in the cell nucleus, encode the workings of the body. The stability of this genetic...
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2022.04.28
How do we track the dynamics of a disease, particularly in terms of its response to vaccines? A study published in Science Translational Medicine provides...
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2022.05.20
New genetic analyses of Latin Americans have revealed numerous insights into how indigenous peoples evolved before European contact, and how their genetics...
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2022.02.01
Since the start of the pandemic, the ability to study the biology of the virus in cells and detect its presence in infected organs or patients has been...
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2021.12.21
Darwinian evolution plays a central yet poorly understood role in human disease. Iterations between genetic mutation and environmental selection drive cancer...
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2021.12.14
Listeria monocytogenes is a major human foodborne pathogen, associated with one of the highest medical and economic burdens. In addition, L. monocytogenes is...
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2022.11.29
Bacteria are prokaryotes, meaning that they are living organisms with no nucleus. As well as the DNA that enables them to live and develop, bacteria also...