biochemistry
Portrait
2023.02.10
Robert Louis Stevenson once said that the journey was more important than the destination. For Caroline Demangel, the journey traveled has enabled her to...
News
2023.01.09
Bacteria are single-celled organisms that are capable of interacting with their external environment, for example by secreting molecules outside their cell...
News
2022.11.24
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...
News
2022.11.30
Calmodulin is a protein found in all living organisms, or at least those whose cells have a nucleus. "Calmodulin" literally means "calcium-modulated protein...
Document de presse
2022.10.19
Researchers from the Institut Pasteur, McMaster University and the University of Chicago have identified genes that protected some individuals against the...
News
2022.10.03
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...
Portrait
2022.09.22
It's hard to miss this pair on the Institut Pasteur campus in Paris. Obviously they're twins, but there's more to them than that. Even a brief encounter with...
Document de presse
2022.07.13
Bats are reservoir species for numerous viruses including coronaviruses. Given that they do not appear to be affected by diseases transmitted by these viruses...
News
2022.01.11
The pathogen Legionella pneumophila modulates the biochemistry of the cell it infects for its own benefit. The bacterium stops mitochondrial respiration, while...
Document de presse
2021.12.06
In 2019, the WHO positioned chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) third in the global ranking of causes of death. However, some mechanisms of this...