genetic variations
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2022.12.19
The DNA variations that interest most scientists are very precise. A change to a single nucleotide (a DNA building block) can radically alter the nature of...
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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...
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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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2023.04.11
Question science - medicine, from La lettre de l’Institut Pasteur (#120 issue) to be published in May 2023
Our immune system can naturally recognize and...
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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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2023.07.10
This article is the second in a series devoted to the hopes of HIV-AIDS research, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the identification of the virus...
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2023.09.05
This article is the third in a series devoted to the hopes of HIV-AIDS research, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the identification of the virus...
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...
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2024.01.05
On the occasion of the new year, the Institut Pasteur gave Marguerite Bornhauser free rein to encapsulate in pictures her...