News
2024.11.04
The DNA contained in our cells is the molecule that carries genetic information and serves as the main basis for heredity. It is composed of nucleotides,...
News
2024.09.05
The estimated length of all the DNA in the human body, if it were unraveled and placed end to end, is 60 billion kilometers, or 400 times the distance from...
News
2024.06.10
© musée des Confluences – Bertrand Stofleth
The exhibition looks back at a shared history involving humans, animals and microorganisms, the history of...
News
2024.05.22
There is an urgent need to include monitoring of microbial ecosystems in the environmental narrative
Philippe...
News
2022.07.11
In particular, the year 2021 was again marked by the COVID-19 epidemic. Over the years 2020 and 2021, this represents more than 200 scientific publications...
News
2022.07.09
The significant focus on COVID in labs did not prevent major breakthroughs in other key fields.
What...
News
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...
News
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...
News
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...
News
2023.07.19
Definitions for the technical terms in bold can be found in a glossary at the end of the article.
In 1936, the apartment where Louis and Marie Pasteur...