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Here is the author of our latest article, Maite!
Check out this video where she speaks about her piece and what you’ll learn from it ✨🤓

👉Find the full article on our website: www.piplettes-pasteur.com/post/brains-...

#science #scicomm #biology #article #evolution #brain

20.10.2025 21:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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Learn more about this fascinating subject and how evolution can take unexpected paths to intelligence on our website! 🫶🏼✨📚

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Découvre plus sur ce sujet fascinant et sur la façon dont l’évolution peut emprunter des chemins inattendus vers l’intelligence sur notre site ! 🫶🏼✨📚
#biology #evolution

15.10.2025 14:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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Evolution found a new way to build intelligence!
Cephalopods use microRNAs - tiny genetic switches - to shape their complex nervous system 🤯

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L’évolution a trouvé une autre manière de créer l’intelligence !
Les céphalopodes utilisent des microARN pour façonner leur système nerveux complexe🤯

15.10.2025 14:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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Turns out evolution didn’t rewrite their DNA, but how it’s used 🧬

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L’évolution n’a pas réécrit leur ADN, mais sa façon d’être utilisé 🧬

15.10.2025 14:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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Les pieuvres rêvent, résolvent des énigmes et reconnaissent des visages 🐙🧠

Comment une telle intelligence a-t-elle émergé ?

Maite, étudiante en thèse à l’Institut Pasteur, a écrit un article sur ce sujet!

www.piplettes-pasteur.com/post/brains-...

15.10.2025 14:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Brains evolve differently underwater Cephalopods—squid, octopuses, cuttlefish, and nautiluses—are the most intelligent and agile of all mollusks, boasting extraordinary adaptations for predation, locomotion, and communication. Despite th...

Did you know? Octopuses can dream, solve puzzles, and recognize faces! 🐙 🧠

But how did such intelligence evolve?

✨Maite, PhD student at Pasteur Institute, wrote an article about this!

👉Find it on our website
www.piplettes-pasteur.com/post/brains-...

15.10.2025 14:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This great article was written by Cécile Apert and illustrated by Alice Bongers!📝

Available in both French and English: www.piplettes-pasteur.com/post/sweetbr...

29.08.2025 10:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🇫🇷 Le thymus cache encore bien d’autres secrets… 🧩 Envie d’en savoir plus ? Lis l’article complet sur notre site !

🇬🇧 The thymus hides many more secrets… 🧩 Want to know more? Read the full story on our website!

29.08.2025 10:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

🇫🇷 Tes cellules T passent une double sélection : reconnaître les envahisseurs sans attaquer ton corps. Si ça déraille, cela peut être lié à des maladies auto-immunes.

🇬🇧 T cells undergo double selection: detect invaders without harming your body. If it fails, it may be linked to autoimmune diseases.

29.08.2025 10:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Sweetbread, à la Immune System Here’s a recipe straight from our body’s cookbook: how to train immune cells to efficiently eliminate invading viruses and bacteria, while leaving our own cells unharmed. The star ingredient? The thym...

🇫🇷 Le savais-tu ? Ton système immunitaire a une école: le thymus! Là, les cellules T apprennent qui combattreet surtout qui épargner✨

🇬🇧 Did you know? Your immune system has a school: the thymus! There, T cells learn who to fightand, importantly, who not to✨

www.piplettes-pasteur.com/post/sweetbr...

29.08.2025 10:34 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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And here is Silvia, the author of our latest article!🤩📚

Did you know that your lifestyle can impact your genes? And that NASA studied that by sending a twin to the Moon?🌙

Silvia breaks it all down in her article on how cool ✨epigenetics✨ is!

Check it out www.piplettes-pasteur.com/post/you-may...

12.05.2025 09:04 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Et - bien sûr, comme d’habitude - ce super article est aussi dispo en français 🇫🇷

👉 www.piplettes-pasteur.com/post/vous-po...

09.05.2025 11:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

From NASA studies on twins, to global look-likes, discover how genes, lifestyle, and the environment shape who we are - and who we look like 👯🧬

09.05.2025 11:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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You may have a twin and you don’t know it: the science of look-alikes Perhaps someone has already told you that you look like someone else, but is it actually true? It is! Science suggests that there is someone in the world that looks like you and that even shares your ...

New article alert!

Ever met someone who looks exactly like you? Science says it’s more than a coincidence!

Read more on the science of look alikes in our latest piece, written by Silvia, PhD student in epigenetics🧬

www.piplettes-pasteur.com/post/you-may...

09.05.2025 11:01 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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We know you’ve been wondering-what exactly is cellular microbiology?🧐

Here is Nora, the author behind our latest article 🦠🔬

Not only she answered all of your questions, she also interviewed different people in the field!
How cool is that?🤯

Go and read!💥 www.piplettes-pasteur.com/post/extreme...

24.03.2025 18:53 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ohhh et bien sûr, si tu préfères lire en français, nous avons aussi cet excellent article traduit sur notre site web 🇫🇷

www.piplettes-pasteur.com/post/what-is...

Aucune excuse, va découvrir ce qu’est la microbiologie cellulaire ! 🔭👨‍🔬👾

20.03.2025 11:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The author Nora breaks down how tiny battles between microbes and cells happen and why they’re key to fighting diseases, featuring insights from top researchers in the field!🦠🔬

20.03.2025 11:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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What is a cellular microbiologist? Do you want to know more about what a cellular microbiologist studies? Join me on an incredible journey where we'll explore the fascinating microscopic world of cell invasion by pathogens, and compare...

Cellular microbiology is all about how microbes and cells interact💥

Hit the link to learn more about it in our latest article!📚

www.piplettes-pasteur.com/post/extreme...

20.03.2025 11:55 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Crossing Lines, Shifting Paradigms: Charting the Rise of Biomechanical Robots This article chronicles the rise of a new generation of robots whose boundary-breaking form and domain-transforming function are shaped by the synthesis of organic components and mechanical parts.   S...

The future of robotics is here 🤖🌱
From bacteria-powewered sensors, to robots that interact with the environment, these innovations are breaking boundaries💥🚀

📖Go and check out our latest article here: www.piplettes-pasteur.com/post/crossin...

#Piplettes #pasteur #Robotics #biology #scicomm #Science

14.02.2025 12:12 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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A ✨quick peek✨ into our latest article straight from the author Juan, postdoc at @pasteur.fr 🌌

Want more? 🤓 Read the full story here: www.piplettes-pasteur.com/post/extreme...

Salut Piplettes👋✍🏻🧪

#science #scicomm #biology #institutpasteur #article #piplettes #hypoxia #heart

21.01.2025 08:54 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Extreme Environments: Lessons from Ocean Depths Adaptations of the Heart: Comparative Responses to Diving and Hypoxia Across Species…Many physiological mechanisms have evolved in living organisms to cope with extreme environments, including high altitudes or deep ocean depths. These include changes in oxygen transport and utilization, metabolic adjustments, strategies to retain heat in cold conditions, adaptations to withstand high pressure, mechanisms for surviving in darkness, and efficient energy use to cope with limited food availability.

What better way to kick off our BlueSky than with a deep dive into science?🌊🔬

Our latest article, Extreme Environments: Lessons from Ocean Depths, explores how whale hearts adapt to deep-sea pressures🐋

Written by Juan, postdoc at @pasteur.fr🧬

👉Read it: www.piplettes-pasteur.com/post/extreme...

18.01.2025 09:27 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

Piplettes takes BlueSky, welcome! 🎉

We’re an online sci-comm magazine, where science is told by scientists 🧬 and made for everyone 🌍

Affiliated with @pasteur.fr, we bring exciting science and lab stories🧪

🚨 Stay tuned for the coolest nerdy content! ✨

#PiplettesMagazine #SciComm #InstitutPasteur

17.01.2025 20:28 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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