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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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