Population genetics
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2021.07.15
July 2021 marks the hundredth anniversary of the first vaccination of an infant with the BCG vaccine. Although tuberculosis is still one of the ten leading...
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2020.04.28
Following the emergence of COVID-19 disease in Wuhan in December 2019, syndromic surveillance was implemented in France from January 10, 2020. Two weeks later...
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2021.05.31
Diphtheria is a severe infection caused in humans by toxigenic strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae bacteria. If left untreated, it leads to death in 5 to 25...
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2021.06.01
The structure of DNA and chromosomes is a major focus of research, but still holds a number of mysteries. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS...
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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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2021.02.22
The Lymphopoiesis Unit identified within the first cells that seed the thymus a unique population of lymphoid progenitors. These cells can generate lymphoid...
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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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2020.03.05
Cells in vivo organize into 3D structures that underlie the shape and mechanics of tissues, as well as their biological function. Researchers mapped how...
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2020.07.16
Triplet repeat expansions are responsible for more than two dozen neurological and developmental disorders. Shortening these repeats with endonucleases could...