human genetics
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2022.10.05
"Carte blanche" for the Institut Pasteur and the French Academy of Sciences at the "Rendez-vous de l'histoire" festival in Blois...
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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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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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2022.10.17
Candida albicans is a fungus found in most healthy individuals; it generally colonizes the mucosa in the digestive and genital tracts. But in some...
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2022.11.02
Physical forces are essential to biological function, but their impact at the tissue level is not fully understood. The gut is under continuous mechanical...
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2022.09.21
A study by an international group of researchers* introduces a new neurocomputational model of the human brain that could shed light on how the brain develops...
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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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2022.12.12
When it comes to emerging infectious diseases, it is crucial for us to be able to sound the alert and prepare so that we can implement effective measures to...
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2023.03.30
Identifying the pathogens responsible for a disease outbreak can be a complicated task. From one generation to the next, each pathogen can mutate, and it can...
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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...