Even a well-characterized genome, such as that of the Drosophila the so-called fruit fly, still holds surprises. Researchers from the Department of Genetics and Evolution, in collaboration with Cornell University (USA) and the University of Groningen (Netherlands), have discovered an … Continue reading →

Learn more about Akira Ohkubo and the secret life of mitochondrial DNA and watch the finale online on April 16th 2021 at 7pm via Léman Bleu Télévision More info  

The company Olympus, a well-known provider of microscopes, organised the 2nd Global Image of the Year Light Microscopy Award to celebrate the very best in life science imaging worldwide. We are very excited that an outstanding image recorded by Grigorii … Continue reading →

Usually scaled, the skin of fish can also be naked or made up of bony plates that form an armour, sometimes even covered with teeth. But how has this skin evolved over the ages? To answer this question, Alexandre Lemopoulos … Continue reading →

Plasmodium is the parasite causing malaria, one of the deadliest parasitic diseases. The parasite requires two hosts —the Anopheles mosquito and the human— to complete its life cycle and goes through different forms at each stage of its life cycle. … Continue reading →