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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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Deciphering the energetic code of cells for better anticancer therapies
A procedure that may help personalise anticancer therapies has just been developed by the CNRS, INSERM, and Aix-Marseille University scientists at…
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