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Thanks to advances in molecular genetics, it has become possible to describe the genome of the 100,000 billion bacteria that colonize our digestive tract. This world that used to be called intestinal flora is now called microbiota (from the Greek: "small" and...

Today the life expectancy at birth continues to increase, it is a fact known to all. What is a little less known is the evolution of healthy life expectancy at birth, which equals the number of years we will live healthy, which is stagnating. In other words, we risk...

Why do we age? We age because the macromolecules of which we are composed (proteins, lipids and nucleic acids) are gradually damaged. Because of this molecular alteration, certain essential biochemical reactions will be modified, compromising the normal functioning of...

For the first time in 1743, the famous surgeon of Louis XVI, François de La Peyronie, described this condition, which is usually a hardening of the corpus cavernosum accompanied by pain and curvature of the penis during erection. Unlike other male sexual pathologies,...