Sleeping sickness
Vidéo
2025.10.27
What if we could stop a disease before it affected humans?
That is the aim of the Sherlock project, an RNA test capable of detecting sleeping sickness in...
News
2025.09.22
Human African trypanosomiasis, commonly known as sleeping sickness, is characterized by symptoms ranging from severe fatigue and skin signs to sleep...
Vidéo
2025.02.10
Dive into the heart of the trypanosome, the parasite responsible for sleeping sickness!
Transmitted by the bite of the tsetse fly, this disease affects over 30...
Document de presse
2025.01.31
Guinea celebrates today the elimination of sleeping sickness (also known as human African trypanosomiasis or HAT) as a public health problem.
Despite health...
News
2023.09.04
The brain is a complex organ with a surprising ability to adapt. The plasticity of synapses in particular allows neuron assemblies to modulate their functions...
News
2023.03.03
© Florence Roullet Boyer
On February 3, 23 curious visitors embarked on a unique tour of the Institut Pasteur, led by teams...
News
2020.07.09
Diagnosis of sleeping sickness, a neglected tropical disease caused by African trypanosomes, relies on the detection of parasites in blood. Following their...
News
2020.07.09
The African trypanosome Trypanosoma brucei gambiense is a parasite responsible for chronic Human African Trypanosomiasis, more commonly known as sleeping...
Portrait
2020.01.30
Jean-Philippe Chippaux is a hands-on guy. Throughout his career, he has contributed to the prevention and treatment of several neglected tropical diseases in a...
News
2019.07.17
On July 4, the Institut Pasteur, an internationally renowned center for biomedical research and a French non-profit foundation specialized in infectious...