News round-up
258 results
Le Journal
Medicine goes viral
Few weapons are available to fight antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which continue to cause millions of deaths. However, scientists are currently…
Discover
Press
Animal domestication: a key mutation behind horse-based mobility identified
Scientists knew that horses were first domesticated began during the third millennium BCE. Yet, the exact nature of the genetic modifications that…
Read more
Le Journal
Giants with feet of clay
The disappearance of non-avian dinosaurs didn’t mark the end of giant organisms in the living world. From enormous mammals to oversized insects and…
Discover
Le Journal
Sharks fall prey to "Jaws"
Steven Spielberg’s "Jaws" is back in cinemas worldwide 50 years after its original release. The specialist Éric Clua talks about the negative image…
Discover
Press
Llama antibodies: new therapeutic avenues against schizophrenia
Nanobodies were recently generated from llama antibodies to target a key brain receptor involved in schizophrenia.Injected peripherally, these…
Read more
Le Journal
The tribulations of the chihuahua in America
Researchers have shown that dogs had a place in the first agricultural societies of Central and South America more than 5,000 years ago. But the…
Discover
Le Journal
Iron and cancer, a balancing act
Treatments such as chemotherapy tend only to be effective against the most proliferative cancer cells. At the Institut Curie, Raphaël Rodriguez and…
Discover
Le Journal
How aquatic plants changed the face of the Earth
Half a billion years ago, plants, until then exclusively aquatic, set out to colonise the land. This transition transformed the Earth and its…
Discover