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2021.05.20
Rabies is still responsible for approximately 60,000 deaths in humans each year. The bat-borne virus EBL1a, related to rabies, rarely affects humans, but a...
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2020.02.08
In nature, female mosquitoes take successive blood meals during which they are exposed to a variety of microbes present in the host. In Africa, Trypanosoma...
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2020.08.04
Resistance to artemisinin, the main component of current antimalarial treatments recommended by WHO, is widespread in South-East Asia, but has not been...
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2020.10.17
Ludovic Deriano’s Unit studied cells mutated for NHEJ, the canonical repair pathway for DNA double-strand break. The researchers showed that those transformed...
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2021.05.03
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Emerging and re-emerging viruses are key players among the different pathogens that have caused recent epidemics, as attested by several...
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2020.07.22
Aptamers can be thought of as analogs of antibodies entirely composed of nucleic acids (DNA or RNA). They can be used in a wide range of applications but they...
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2021.05.05
Malaria remains a major public health burden in some world regions. In 2018, 237,000 cases were reported in Brazil, 91.5% of them caused by the parasite...
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2021.04.26
Preventive vaccination is a powerful tool in controlling viral outbreaks. It is important that any side effects associated with the use of vaccines are as mild...
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2021.03.30
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and increasingly rapidly thereafter, the Institut Pasteur International Network has drawn heavily on all its...
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2021.03.30
Immunotherapy, or the notion of "retraining" patients' immune systems, constitutes a major step forward in the fight against cancer. Although the results of...