In France alone, Alzheimer's disease affects one million people, mobilises two million carers and costs the community €20 billion. But there is no cure. And yet, scientists regularly announce discoveries and experiments that quickly prove to be ineffective. The dream of offering a treatment
PlusLongtemps, nous avons considéré notre cousin Neandertal avec mépris voire, condescendance. Il est vrai qu’avec sa mine patibulaire de brute épaisse, son front bas et son air un tantinet demeuré, il faisait un peu désordre dans notre tableau de famille d’homo sapiens distingués. Las ! c’était sans compter sur les progrès
PlusFor a long time now, people have been talking in the columns of UP' Magazine about CRISPR-Cas9, this formidable or terrifying - depending on one's point of view - tool of genetic modification. An invention by Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Chapentier that is the subject of a fierce patent battle. But Monsanto, without intimidating itself
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