Article categories : "Biology"

• Biology

6 min

Published the 28/04/2022

Episodic memory knows all about you

IllustrationProf. Bill HarrisAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Episodic memory is a form of conscious, explicit memory of lived moments and their context, that also allows us to plan the future. This memory is sometimes also called autobiographical, as it is the one that knows you the best! T [...]

• Biology
• Immunology

5 min

Published the 23/03/2022

Giving everything you've got: Donating organs

As with blood, organ transplantation and donation is a much more complicated process than the "simple" replacement of a liver or kidney. On top of the extremely complicated and precise microsurgical intervention, there is also the imminent threat of organ rejection, where our body pecieves the new o [...]

• Biology

6 min

Published the 10/03/2022

Reproduction: love or just business?

Reproduction, or the act of mixing one's genes with another individual of the same species in order to have offspring, has not always been obvious to humans. Even if prehistoric women must have suspected that something was wrong with the modifications that their bodies underw [...]

• Biology
• Toxicology / Pharmacology

6 min

Published the 23/02/2022

Giving everything you've got: donating blood

Blood donation is nowadays a common practice around the world. It is mostly done by unpaid volunteers who donate blood for a community supply, donating for various reasons: as a form of charity, general awareness for others in need, helping a friend or a relative, and sometim [...]

• Biology

8 min

Published the 19/02/2022

Endometriosis: let us talk about it

On January 13, Clémentine Autain, a member of the France Insoumise party, proposed to the National Assembly to recognize endometriosis as a long-term condition. After being adopted unanimously, the President has taken up this issue and asked the French Minister of Solidarity [...]

• Biology
• Immunology

4 min

Published the 02/02/2022

On the trail of a vaccine against allergic asthma

Asthma is a chronicle disease affecting approximately 340 millions of people worldwide. Allergic asthma accounts for 50 % of asthma in the adult population. A new vaccine against this specific form could be developed in the upcoming years.In May 2021, the Pasteur Institute, in association with Inse [...]