Series  -  Michel Morange

                                                                

2004

December   The death of Francis Crick: the end of a golden age in biology

2005

June             What history tells us     I. The operon model and its legacy 
September   What history tells us     II. The discovery of chaperone function
December    What history tells us     III. André Lwoff: From protozoology to mole­cular definition of viruses


2006

March         What history tells us IV. Ciliates as models . . . of what? 
June            What history tells us V. Emile Duclaux (1840–1904) 
September  What history tells us VI. The transfer of behaviours by macromolecules 
December   What history tells us VII. Twenty-five years ago: the production of mouse embryonic stem cells   


2007

March       What history tells us VIII. The progressive construction of a mechanism for prion diseases  
June             What history tells us  IX. Z-DNA: when nature is not opportunistic
September  What history tells us  X. Fifty years ago: the beginnings of exobiology
December  
What history tells us XI. The complex history of the chemiosmotic theory


2008

March       What history tells us XII. Boris Ephrussi's continuing efforts to create a "genetics of differentiation"
June             What history tells us XIII. Fifty years of Central Dogma
September  What history tells us XIV. Regulation of gene expression by non coding RNAs: the early steps
December  
What history tells us XV. Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897–1967) – A chemical dynamic vision of the organic world


2009

March       What history tells us XVI. A third pillar for molecular biology: Molecular embryology
June             What history tells us XVII. Conrad Waddington and The nature of life
September  What history tells us XVIII. When functional biologists propose mechanisms of evolution
December 
What history tells us XIX. The notion of the episome


2010

March       What history tells us XX. Felix Haurowitz (1896–1987) – A difficult journey in the political and scientific upheavals of the 20th century
June            What history tells us XXI. Apoptosis and programmed cell death: when biological categories are blurred
December  What history tells us XXII. The French neo-Lamarckians


2011

March      What history tells us XXIII. The genetic distance between humans and chimpanzees: What did Mary-Claire King and Allan Wilson really say in 1975?
June           What history tells us XXIV. The attempt of Nikolai Koltzoff to link genetics, embryology and physical chemistry
September 
What history tells us XXV. Construction of the ribbon model of proteins (1981) The contribution of Jane Richardson
December  
What history tells us XXVI. From Mechnikov to proteotoxicity: Ageing as the result of an intoxication


2012

March     What history tells us XXVII. A new life for allostery
September       What history tells us XXVIII. What is really new in the current evolutionary theory of cancer?
December 
What history tells us XXIX. Transfers from plant biology: From cross protection to RNA interference and DNA vaccination