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ALPALGA: the search for mountain snow microalgae
High elevation snow is home to previously unknown species of microalgae.
Scientists have created…
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A plant-fungi partnership at the origin of terrestrial vegetation
Plants that exist on land today have genes that allow them to exchange lipids with beneficial fungi
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A protein with a dual role: both repair and mutation
The Mfd protein repairs bacterial DNA, but can also, to scientists’ surprise, promote mutation.
Bacterial mutations can lead to antibiotic…
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Charcot-Marie Tooth disease: A 100% French RNA-based therapeutic innovation
• Charcot-Marie Tooth disease causes progressive paralysis of the legs and hands. No treatment is available today.
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A single gene ‘invented’ haemoglobin several times
Thanks to the marine worm Platynereis dumerilii, an animal whose genes have evolved very slowly, scientists from CNRS, Université de Paris and…
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New Tara expedition dedicated to ocean microbes crucial for major planetary balances
On December 12, 2020, five years after the adoption of the Paris Agreement, the schooner Tara will set sail from Lorient, her home port, to embark on…
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