Portrait
2018.12.04
It was 35 years ago that the HIV-1 virus, responsible for AIDS, was first isolated by scientists at the Institut Pasteur. While many lives have been saved by...
Document de presse
2019.07.12
Cells from the rare individuals who naturally control HIV infection have been the focus of investigation for nearly 15 years with the aim of elucidating their...
News
2019.04.01
When cancer escapes the immune system, our defenses are rendered powerless and are unable to fight against the disease. Chimeric antigen receptor T cells (CAR...
Document de presse
2018.12.20
Current HIV treatments need to be taken for life by those infected as antiretroviral therapy is unable to eliminate viral reservoirs lurking in immune cells....
News
2018.07.17
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi is a retrovirologist, laureate of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for her discovery of HIV (with Luc Montagnier) and President of the...
Document de presse
2018.06.14
Rare patients infected by HIV spontaneously control viral replication without antiretroviral therapy, and do not go on to develop AIDS. The ability of these...
News
2018.05.14
The most severe allergic reaction, anaphylaxis (or anaphylactic shock), is the result of an inappropriate immune reaction following the introduction of a...
News
2018.02.12
The CyaA protein is a toxin produced by the bacteria responsible for whooping cough. When it intoxicates target cells, CyaA binds to a molecule known as...
News
2017.10.20
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur have proved that NK cells ("natural killer" cells in the immune system) migrate to lymphoid follicles, where they control...
News
2015.12.14
More than a million cells die every minute in an adult human body. But what actually happens to these cells? How does cell death influence all our living...