genetic variations
Document de presse
2021.12.06
In 2019, the WHO positioned chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) third in the global ranking of causes of death. However, some mechanisms of this...
News
2021.11.30
During infection, the pathogenic bacterium interacts closely with the bacteria in the gut. They may have to share resources, thereby limiting infection with...
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2020.03.20
The 3D organization of chromosomes plays a role in many biological processes. The ring formed by the cohesin complex is an important regulator of this...
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2021.07.27
The National Library of France (BnF) awarded the two Prix Pasteur Vallery-Radot 2021 to Jérôme Gros and Etienne Patin, researchers at the Institut Pasteur....
Document de presse
2020.04.28
Following the emergence of COVID-19 disease in Wuhan in December 2019, syndromic surveillance was implemented in France from January 10, 2020. Two weeks later...
News
2021.05.31
Diphtheria is a severe infection caused in humans by toxigenic strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae bacteria. If left untreated, it leads to death in 5 to 25...
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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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2020.08.04
Resistance to artemisinin, the main component of current antimalarial treatments recommended by WHO, is widespread in South-East Asia, but has not been...
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2020.10.17
Ludovic Deriano’s Unit studied cells mutated for NHEJ, the canonical repair pathway for DNA double-strand break. The researchers showed that those transformed...
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2020.07.16
Triplet repeat expansions are responsible for more than two dozen neurological and developmental disorders. Shortening these repeats with endonucleases could...