Since the dawn of time, debates and controversies have clashed over the origin of life. Scientists have just published an article accumulating evidence of an extraterrestrial origin for certain species living on Earth. This is the case for certain viruses and cephalopods that have genetic characteristics that we do not know about.
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Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have developed gold nanoparticles that have the property of attracting viruses to them in order to destroy them. Like broad-spectrum antibiotics, this completely new approach could destroy several types of virus such as HIV, dengue fever, herpes or Ebola.
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A research project developed by British scientists from the University of York and the University of Leeds has established how to write code that can govern the assembly of viruses. In other words, the researchers claim to be able to write code to control the
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Antibiotic resistance - the phenomenon whereby bacteria stop responding to certain antibiotics - is a growing threat worldwide. A threat that is expected to kill 10 million people a year by 2050. Many major pharmaceutical companies have stopped developing antibiotics.
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Scientific knowledge is progressing every day. Every morning we discover a new exoplanet, a new way to produce energy, change our environment or improve our health. Yet researchers have just discovered a terra incognita. And not the least because it's lodged within our bodies,
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An article published on 24 August in Foreign Policy Magazine* highlights the explosive effects of synthetic biology in defence. Contamination by the Zika virus illustrates the risks of a pandemic, as long as the enemy is not known! How to consider implementing the
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Are the technologies developed in semiconductors transposable to medicine? This is what IBM Research, associated for the occasion with a bio and nano technology institute in Singapore, is trying to prove. Their work has just been published in a scientific journal. The researchers claim to have created a macromolecule capable of eradicating
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Biodiversity is currently undergoing one of its most significant alterations: the current extinction rates of animal species are 100 to 1,000 times higher than those recorded from fossil records. They concern all types of species - birds, reptiles, mammals. The primordial role of human activities in this phenomenon
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This is one of the consequences of global warming that has long been feared but which seems to be confirmed. As the permafrost warms, it releases organisms that have been dormant for millennia into the frozen layers of earth several metres thick that cover Siberia. A team of French-Russian researchers
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