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2021.09.30
In August 2019, a case of rabies believed to have been transmitted by a bat led to the death of a patient in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of France. This...
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2020.05.05
Known to kill bacteria, can antibiotics also interfere with our immune system? Researchers at the Pasteur Institute have discovered that a new molecule, used...
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2021.08.19
Monkeypox is an emerging and neglected infectious disease caused by the Monkeypox virus (MPXV). The disease has a similar clinical presentation to smallpox,...
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2021.07.21
Over the last few decades, neurodegenerative diseases became one of the top 10 global causes of death. Researchers worldwide are making a strong effort to...
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2021.05.20
Rabies is still responsible for approximately 60,000 deaths in humans each year. The bat-borne virus EBL1a, related to rabies, rarely affects humans, but a...
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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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2020.07.09
Diagnosis of sleeping sickness, a neglected tropical disease caused by African trypanosomes, relies on the detection of parasites in blood. Following their...
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2020.10.24
α1β2γ2 GABAA receptors mediate most inhibitory synaptic transmission in the brain, and are the target of widely used therapeutic drugs such as benzodiazepines...
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2020.03.19
Gene structure, including the transcript leader, is very diverse in fungi. New sequencing data analysis from the RNA Biology of Fungal Pathogens unit revealed...
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2020.07.22
Aptamers can be thought of as analogs of antibodies entirely composed of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA). They can be used in a wide range of applications but they...