Bacteria
Document de presse
2019.09.30
Pasteurdon, a major event that celebrates French research, is focusing on two central themes for its 2019 edition: antimicrobial resistance and cancer. These...
Portrait
2019.02.21
After completing high school, Eliette chose to study science, and when she experienced the realities of life as a scientist she decided to pursue a career in...
Portrait
2018.11.05
Driven by curiosity, Lhousseine Touqui has spent many years conducting fundamental research on the respiratory system. Today, his work in the joint Institut...
Portrait
2018.09.04
You have no doubt already heard about emerging viruses. The international media regularly informs us about viruses raging across the world, for instance Zika,...
Portrait
2018.08.06
Bacteria can be found everywhere on Earth – our bodies for instance are made up of as many bacteria as human cells – and yet these microorganisms, measuring...
News
2019.09.11
An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the Institut Pasteur and the Georgia Institute of Technology has received a $2.5 million National Institutes of...
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2019.09.06
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur are investigating CyaA, one of the major toxins of Bordetella pertussis. This bacterium is responsible for whooping cough...
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2019.07.12
The first mosquitoes carrying Wolbachia, bacteria that prevent them from transmitting arboviruses (including dengue, Zika and chikungunya), were released on...
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2019.07.23
Extremophiles are organisms that have evolved to thrive under extremely harsh environmental conditions. Scientists have always been mystified by how these...
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2019.07.08
Microorganisms are constantly challenged by a variety of environmental stresses. In many bacteria, the stressosome, a key inducer of the stress response is a...