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News
2026.04.27
Read below the op-ed (in French) published in the French newspaper Le Parisien on April 26, 2026, on the occasion of World Vaccination Week.
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News
2026.04.24
Live attenuated vaccines
Principle: a weakened or very similar version of the virus or bacteria is used. This weakened microbe is no longer capable of...
News
2026.03.12
Since its emergence, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has not stopped evolving. Each new variant accumulates mutations in its spike protein, the 'key' enabling it to...
Vidéo
2026.02.20
Women and men do not have the same immunity.
Molly Ingersoll, a researcher at the Institut Pasteur, explains why.
In women, the immune response is faster and...
News
2026.02.26
Salmonella enterica serovar Panama, one of the most common causative agents of non-typhoidal Salmonella disease in France's overseas territories, is...
Portrait
2026.02.09
From science fiction to the Institut Pasteur in Paris
At the age of twelve, Molly came across a science fiction novel in which a female scientist was cloned by...
News
2026.02.12
Infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) causes more than a million deaths each year, largely because of complications like cirrhosis and liver cancer. There...
News
2026.02.06
In 2023, scientists from the Institut Pasteur discovered that natural killer (NK) cells can develop an immune memory against Streptococcus pneumoniae, also...
News
2026.01.22
How does legionellosis develop in the early stages of infection? Which of the body's cells enable Legionella pneumophila to develop, and why? Scientists at...
Vidéo
2026.01.12
Did you know that your immune system starts developing before you are even born?
In your body, certain cells called macrophages (literally “big eaters”) work...