Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Cystic fibrosis: Why infections persist despite therapy

Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease that causes serious and sometimes fatal respiratory and digestive disorders. A new treatment, available since 2020, improves lung function and quality of life. However, it does not always ...

Oncology & Cancer

Characterization of mutational 'coldspots' in the cancer genome

Mutations are the changes in the DNA that gradually occur in human cells as they replicate, and the organism grows and ages. Some of these changes, particularly when they occur in genes, can be instrumental during the development ...

Oncology & Cancer

Discovering cancers of epigenetic origin without DNA mutation

A research team including scientists from the CNRS has discovered that cancer, one of the leading causes of death worldwide, can be caused entirely by epigenetic changes, in other words, changes that contribute to how gene ...