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Portrait
2025.10.10
Sarah Merkling had never dreamed of becoming a scientist – until the day when, as a young student, she was blown away by a biology class about genetics....
News
2025.09.22
Human African trypanosomiasis, commonly known as sleeping sickness, is characterized by symptoms ranging from severe fatigue and skin signs to sleep...
News
2025.09.12
Although it has been eradicated in Europe, plague still circulates in several regions of the world. Hundreds of cases are reported every year in Madagascar,...
News
2025.07.11
Of the multiple mosquito species encountered globally, some act as vectors transmitting infectious diseases to humans throughout the world. Almost 3,500...
News
2025.07.10
Update on chikungunya in mainland France in summer 2025
Several locally acquired cases of chikungunya have been detected in mainland France since the...
Report
2025.06.12
As we are already feeling the major impacts of climate change, we urgently need to gain a better understanding of the consequences of environmental transitions...
News
2025.05.21
Bacteria first emerged on Earth 3.5 to 4 billion years ago, quickly developing adaptation mechanisms allowing them to survive in the changing and sometimes...
Document de presse
2025.01.31
Guinea celebrates today the elimination of sleeping sickness (also known as human African trypanosomiasis or HAT) as a public health problem.
Despite health...
Document de presse
2024.11.12
Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research Infectious Diseases Labs (A*STAR IDL) and France’s Institut Pasteur have signed a Memorandum of...
Vidéo
2024.07.23
Anna-Bella Failloux, head of the Arbovirus and Insect Vectors Unit at the Institut Pasteur, tells you all about the tiger mosquito:
Its characteristics
How it...