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Radiotherapy : repair proteins in search of the ring to protect DNA

To understand why some cancer cells resist radiotherapy, an international team of researchers has used crystallography to “photograph” the first…

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Deciphering the link between skin allergies and the gut microbiota

Over the last few years, scientists have discovered connections between gut microbiota imbalances and various diseases. Now, in a study using mice,…

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A molecule that can improve the efficiency of chemotherapy
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A molecule that can improve the efficiency of chemotherapy

A team of researchers from the CNRS and Université Nice Sophia Antipolis has just shown that a small molecule called methiothepin can inhibit…

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A new twist on how parasites invade host cells

Researchers from CNRS, INSERM and the Université Grenoble Alpes have decoded the mechanisms used by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii to enter…

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Alzheimer’s disease: how amyloid aggregates alter neuronal function

The accumulation of amyloid peptides in the form of plaques in the brain is one of the primary indicators of Alzheimer’s disease. While the harmful…

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Alzheimer's disease : how amyloid aggregates alter neuronal function
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Alzheimer's disease: how amyloid aggregates alter neuronal function

The accumulation of amyloid peptides in the form of plaques in the brain is one of the primary indicators of Alzheimer's disease. While the harmful…

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The search for the origin of mast cells
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The search for the origin of mast cells

A team of researchers from CNRS, INSERM and Aix-Marseille Université (AMU) at the Centre of immunology (Marseille-Luminy (CIML), together with the…

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BIABooster : a more sensitive device for characterizing DNA in blood circulation
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BIABooster: a more sensitive device for characterizing DNA in blood circulation

Developed and patented in 2012 and 2014 in the Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systèmes (LAAS-CNRS) and implemented industrially by…

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How allergens trigger asthma attacks
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How allergens trigger asthma attacks

A team of Inserm and CNRS researchers from the Institute of Pharmacology and Structural Biology—or IPBS (CNRS / Université Toulouse III—Paul Sabatier…

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In the eye of the medulloblastoma
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In the eye of the medulloblastoma

Can genes normally expressed only in the eye be activated in brain tumours? Such a phenomenon, though surprising, has been observed in certain types…

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