virology
Portrait
2026.03.30
A childhood shaped by science and empathy
Guillemette Masse-Ranson was born in northern France before moving to Greater Paris when she was five. She was...
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...
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...
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....
Vidéo
2025.04.07
Measles explodes in 2025: what do we do?
Nearly 200 cases in France this year, twice as many as last year! This ultra-contagious virus infects the respiratory...
News
2025.03.20
Here is the story of a successful international collaboration. The Institut Pasteur and the Quantitative Biosciences Institute at the University of...
Document de presse
2024.10.24
Between 15 and 20% of people experience a depressive episode1 – "a state of deep, lasting distress" – at some point in their lives. But 30% of patients with...
News
2024.07.04
What precise mechanisms do coronaviruses use to infect us? More than four years after the infamous SARS-CoV-2 emerged in humans, many scientists are still...
News
2024.06.11
Strengthening Preparedness and response capacities: Mitigating Vector-Borne Diseases in a Globalized World
Since the end of the 20th century, the world has...
News
2022.08.05
RNA viruses, which include influenza viruses, SARS-CoV-2 (which causes COVID-19) and HIV, are one of the major threats that the immune system has to deal...