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News
2018.05.22
On Monday April 30, 2018, the French Ministry of Health announced that it was stepping up surveillance of the tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, which is now...
News
2018.04.12
An extensive consultation is being held prior to the next revision of the French Bioethics Law. In many ways this National Bioethics Consultation will serve as...
Document de presse
2018.03.12
A new study led by scientists from the University of Cambridge, the Institut Pasteur, Paris Diderot University, the CNRS and the genetics company 23andMe...
News
2018.02.28
Why do we respond differently to infections or vaccines? Why are some people allergic to pollen? These are still unanswered questions in biological and medical...
News
2018.02.08
There are over a hundred mosquito-borne diseases, including dengue – which affects over 50 million people each year – and chikungunya. These are arboviruses,...
News
2017.12.06
A team from the Institut Pasteur, working with a Spanish team from the Autonomous University of Madrid, has discovered a new group of DNA polymerases that can...
Report
2017.12.04
Every year, influenza – or flu – is responsible for three to five million severe cases and 250,000 to 500,000 deaths worldwide. In other words, the "seasonal"...
Document de presse
2017.11.21
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS have recently identified new strategies used by Helicobacter pylori bacteria to infect cells. By specifically...
News
2017.11.22
An outbreak of pneumonic plague has been ongoing in Madagascar for several weeks. As indicated on the World Health Organization (WHO) website, "based on the...
News
2017.10.11
Researchers from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS have recently demonstrated that it is possible to destroy the cell wall of a bacterium by simply disrupting...