Tropical medicine
Portrait
2026.05.11
Borneo, aged 16 – a genetics class that changed everything
The story begins in Pontianak, an Indonesian city on the island of Borneo, with a biology class that...
News
2026.04.27
Read below the op-ed (in French) published in the French newspaper Le Parisien on April 26, 2026, on the occasion of World Vaccination Week.
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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
2026.05.05
In the twenty years since the tiger mosquito was first reported in mainland France in 2004, it has conquered four-fifths of the country. How has it been able...
Vidéo
2026.02.20
Women and men do not have the same immunity.
Molly Ingersoll, a researcher at the Institut Pasteur, explains why.
In women, the immune response is faster and...
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
2026.02.12
Infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) causes more than a million deaths each year, largely because of complications like cirrhosis and liver cancer. There...
Vidéo
2026.01.26
What if our brains could repair themselves?
This dream is still out of reach for humans... But for a small tropical fish, the zebrafish, it's already a reality...
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...