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Reconstitution 3D d'une colonie de choanoflagellés Choanoeca flexa imagée par FIB-SEM (Focused Ion Beam - Scanning Electron Microscopy). Ici la colonie est montrée en conformation “flagelles-dedans”.
News
2026.03.25
Evolutionary biology: what an aquatic microorganism can tell us about our distant origins
  Try this mental exercise for a moment: imagine what our world looked like 1.2 billion years ago. At that time, all land masses formed a single continent, the...
Institut Pasteur - Allostérie - Allostery
News
2025.10.15
Research
Allostery: a revolution in molecular biology, in 1965
  In 1965, Jacques Monod, Jeffries Wyman and Jean-Pierre Changeux published an article(1) that would transform molecular biology. It described their discovery...
Historydiscoveryrégulationmolecular biology
Document de presse
2025.05.29
The plague bacillus became less virulent, prolonging the duration of two major pandemics
Scientists at the Institut Pasteur and McMaster University have discovered that the evolution of a gene in the bacterium that causes bubonic plague, Yersinia...
PlaguegeneticsYersinia pestisPandemics
sacs poubelles cellulaires © Thomas Wollert
News
2024.06.27
Research
Intermittent fasting: cellular cleansing to improve health?
  Intermittent fasting has become a popular practice in recent years. It is known to have beneficial health effects – several studies1, 2, 3 have shown that...
La biosynthèse des centres à fer-soufre
News
2022.10.03
Iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis: a much earlier origin than previously thought
  Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters are protein cofactors that are essential for life. They are thought to have formed spontaneously before the emergence of life in...
biochemistrycell biologygenomics
La biosynthèse des centres à fer-soufre
News
2022.10.03
Iron-sulfur cluster biosynthesis: a much earlier origin than previously thought
  Iron-sulfur (Fe-S) clusters are protein cofactors that are essential for life. They are thought to have formed spontaneously before the emergence of life in...
biochemistrycell biologygenomics
Calmoduline et calmidazolium
News
2022.11.30
Elucidation of the inhibition mechanism of calmodulin, a protein that is essential for life
  Calmodulin is a protein found in all living organisms, or at least those whose cells have a nucleus. "Calmodulin" literally means "calcium-modulated protein...
calciumconformationproteinsynchrotron
Toxine botulique dans intestin de souris
News
2022.11.24
From bacterial poisons to toxins: the early work of the Pasteurians
  What does the term "toxin" mean? Louis Pasteur did not yet know when he identified bacteria as the cause of putrefaction in 1880. In his review article...
anatoxindiphtheriaputrefactionserototherapy
Institut Pasteur
News
2022.01.11
The bacterium causing legionellosis modifies the electrochemical potential of host mitochondria to better replicate
  L. pneumophila is a bacterial pathogen that causes a severe pneumonia called Legionellosis, which is often fatal when not treated promptly. In France,...
Legionellamitochondriabiochemistry
Portrait Caroline Demangel - Institut Pasteur
Portrait
2023.02.10
Caroline Demangel – an ambitious and enterprising scientist
Robert Louis Stevenson once said that the journey was more important than the destination. For Caroline Demangel, the journey traveled has enabled her to...
cancertuberculosisstart-upGender equality

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