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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...
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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...
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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...
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2023.04.17
Launched in October 2020, the ComCor study investigates the environment, practices and places visited by people recently infected with SARS-CoV-2. The aim is...
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2023.05.04
As the summer season approaches, the question of the effects of climate on pathogen transmission by mosquitoes inevitably arises. Scientists therefore...
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2022.09.01
Brain tumors are among the most complex forms of cancer to treat. Glial cells, which support the activity of neurons in the brain, can give rise to a...
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2022.11.21
The brain is the body's conductor, orchestrating a host of vital functions. It is in charge of our language and movements. It is the seat of our consciousness...
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2023.06.06
The tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, is known to serve as the vector for several viruses that are pathogenic for humans. In mainland France, it was...
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2023.06.20
On December 31, 2022, Santé publique France renewed its trust in the Institut Pasteur for its National Reference Centers (CNRs). Nineteen laboratories are...
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2022.07.08
Emerging infectious diseases result from contact between microbes and animals, with humans the most parasitized animal species. From the plague in Asia in 1894...