Computational biology
News
2021.11.17
Some cancers are caused by a viral infection. This is the case with Kaposi's sarcoma, a disease that manifests as skin lesions, but can also affect organs,...
News
2022.02.23
In May 2020, while the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak was coming to an end in France, initial reports emerged of patients with some persistent symptoms...
News
2022.10.24
State-of-the-art super-resolution microscopes enable us to observe biological structures at resolutions approaching molecular scale. A good example is single...
Événement
2022.10.28
Lieu: The Royal Society 6-9 Carlton House Terrace London SW1Y 5AG United Kingdom
To celebrate the bicentenary of Louis Pasteur's birth and pay tribute to this scientist who was a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, the Institut Pasteur and...
News
2023.01.16
Very little is known about what happens when an individual’s genetic makeup doesn’t match their physical sex. This is manifested as a spectrum of conditions...
News
2023.02.06
Our intestine contains hundreds of billions of bacteria: this is the gut microbiota. Ilya Mechnikov had proposed that an imbalance between the different...
News
2023.02.20
The availability of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and the first antiviral drugs at the end of 2020 led to a reduction in the number of infections and the severity of...
Portrait
2024.03.05
When Carla Saleh arrived in France from Argentina aged 25 as a young scientist, she didn't speak a word of French. She now leads her own research unit at the...
News
2024.02.07
Bacteria have a fundamental need for certain rare nutrients such as metals, vitamins and certain sugars. Without these nutrients, the bacterium is deficient...
Portrait
2024.01.15
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood." These words from Marie Curie neatly sum up the philosophy and career of Sarah Dellière. She is...