Christine Petit
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...
Vidéo
2025.09.08
Do you know what a tick looks like when viewed VERY closely?
Christine Schmitt, a researcher at the Institut Pasteur, takes us into the infinitely small world...
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
2025.04.28
Cells infected with HIV persist in the body, forming what are known as viral reservoirs, even in persons receiving antiretroviral therapy. These reservoirs...
News
2025.03.08
Illustrations copyright: Margaux Pailha EI
Did you know that only 20% of Wikipedia biographies are dedicated to women? This...
News
2024.09.05
The estimated length of all the DNA in the human body, if it were unraveled and placed end to end, is 60 billion kilometers, or 400 times the distance from...
News
2023.01.31
On June 28, 1871, Louis Pasteur filed an invention patent for a beer production process. He had observed that fermentation was caused by microorganisms, and...
News
2023.06.19
Hearing is the most frequently affected of the five major senses. The vast majority of auditory deficits affect the cochlea, the sensory organ of hearing,...
News
2023.06.28
Since the 2010s, researchers have been studying the molecular mechanisms underlying deafness of which certain types of so-called sensorineural deafness and...
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2023.06.05
To mark the anniversary of the discovery of HIV in 1983, the Institut Pasteur has decided to retrace the 40 years since this major scientific breakthrough (...