Bacteria
News
2026.05.07
Much like humans who can get sick when infected by a virus, bacteria have pathogenic challenges of their own-phages. These are viruses which infect and...
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...
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
2026.02.26
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
2026.02.06
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...
News
2026.01.15
Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that affects nearly 125 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. While red...
Vidéo
2025.12.29
Diving inside an infected blood vessel.
In this exclusive video, we take a 3D trip into the heart of a blood vessel attacked by a dangerous bacterium:...
Vidéo
2025.11.24
What if we could hack resistant bacteria?
In this video, Didier Mazel, a researcher at the Institut Pasteur, explains how his team is exploring an innovative...