microbial biodiversity
Portrait
2022.03.29
It all started with a veterinarian and a cross-eyed lion
Jean-Claude Manuguerra was 7 when he decided that he wanted to become a veterinarian, to "save animals...
News
2022.02.15
Despite concerted planetary efforts to sequence and analyze SARS-CoV-2, our understanding of the virus is limited by a lack of genomic data on coronaviruses. A...
Document de presse
2021.09.27
The clinical manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 infection vary from one individual to the next, and much remains unknown about the mechanisms underpinning this...
Document de presse
2021.06.30
Christine Clerici, President of Université de Paris, and Stewart Cole, Director General of the Institut Pasteur, have formalised the cooperation between their...
News
2021.05.31
Diphtheria is a severe infection caused in humans by toxigenic strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae bacteria. If left untreated, it leads to death in 5 to 25...
Document de presse
2020.07.01
The gut microbiota houses a complex and varied microbial community that coexists in a balance which is crucial for human health but poorly understood. In this...
News
2021.02.08
Membrane vesicles (also known as extracellular vesicles) are produced by all kinds of organisms. They are small lipid bags that come off a donor cell and get...
News
2021.01.26
Candida albicans is a yeast that naturally resides in the human intestinal tract, but which can prove to be a formidable pathogen in the event of a drop in the...
News
2021.01.25
The Covid-19 epidemic has had great impact on people’s lives across the world. The disease, physical distancing and lockdown measures have had multiple effects...
News
2021.01.20
Diarrheal diseases are the world's second leading cause of death in children aged under 5 years, and of these, bacillary dysentery or shigellosis remains a...