Microbiology
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2017.12.13
From December 14, 2017 to August 19, 2018, the Palais de la découverte in Paris is hosting an exhibition entitled "Pasteur, the experimenter" ("Pasteur, l'...
News
2017.11.27
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur have identified the original strategy used by bacteriophages, the most abundant viruses in human-associated microbiota, to...
Document de presse
2017.11.03
Rift Valley fever virus, transmitted by mosquitoes, is responsible for outbreaks in livestock in Africa and can also be fatal in humans. Scientists from the...
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2017.10.09
Alexandre Yersin was an eminent Pasteurian. Born in Switzerland, he studied medicine in Germany before emigrating to France, as Paris was then at the...
Document de presse
2017.10.13
On October 13, 2017, Professor Stewart Cole was appointed President of the Institut Pasteur by its Board of Directors for a four-year term. He will take office...
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2017.10.11
Researchers from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS have recently demonstrated that it is possible to destroy the cell wall of a bacterium by simply disrupting...
News
2017.10.09
The fight against infectious bacteria requires the understanding at the molecular level of the defense strategies, often very elaborate, that they deploy to...
Document de presse
2017.10.06
Adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) is a gene whose mutations are associated with a rare, hereditary form of colorectal cancer known as familial adenomatous...
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2017.09.21
Acidianus hospitalis Filamentous Virus 1 lives in the bubbling pools of acid of Yellowstone National Park. Researchers from the Institut Pasteur and the...
Document de presse
2017.07.17
Malaria super-spreading mosquitoes can now be identified more easily. Researchers from the Institut Pasteur, CNRS and IRD, in collaboration with scientific...