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News
2025.11.06
Phages, or bacteriophages, are viruses that infect bacteria and play a central role in the dynamics, evolution and adaptation of microbial communities....
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
2025.07.09
What exactly is causing the cases of severe gastrointestinal illness that first began to emerge in and around Saint-Quentin on June 6? The health authorities...
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...
Vidéo
2025.05.20
Why do mosquito bites itch so much?
Jeanne Fenouil, science writer at the Institut Pasteur, explains all about these fearsome little insects.
During...
Vidéo
2025.01.02
This festive season, bubbles are everywhere: in champagne, sodas and sparkling water. But do you know why they fascinate us so much?
Gabriel Lepousez, a...
News
2024.12.19
In 1896, Charles Achard and Raoul Bensaude, both physicians within the Paris Public Hospital Network, identified an infection in patients presenting with...
Document de presse
2024.12.06
Scientists from the National Reference Center for Vibrios and Cholera at the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with the Centre hospitalier de Mayotte, have...
Document de presse
2024.11.21
With the rapid development of antibiotics in the 1930s, phage therapy – using viruses known as bacteriophages or phages to tackle bacterial infections – fell...
News
2024.07.11
Leptospirosis is a bacterial disease transmitted by animals (a zoonosis). It is present worldwide, especially in tropical regions. The recent re-emergence of...