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2026.06.09
Research
Hidradenitis suppurativa: skin-colonizing bacteria play an unexpected role
  Hidradenitis suppurativa is an extremely painful chronic skin condition experienced by up to 4% of the global population, with women most commonly affected....
Maladie de Verneuil
Deux cellules neuronales (CAD) en connexion par un nanotube TNT © Institut Pasteur/Karine Gousset et Chiara Zurzolo,
News
2026.05.26
Research
Parkinson’s and related conditions: how damaged mitochondria trigger nanotube communication in the brain
  The team led by Chiara Zurzolo in the Membrane Traffic and Pathogenesis Unit at the Institut Pasteur recently published a study in Nature Communications that...
neuroscienceParkinsonnanotubesTNTs
bacteriophage escherichia coli - Institut Pasteur
News
2026.05.07
Research
Bacteria Have Millions of Secret Weapons Against Viruses
  Much like humans who can get sick when infected by a virus, bacteria have pathogenic challenges of their own-phages. These are viruses which infect and...
Bacteriaimmunityphages
Femelle d'Aedes aegypti, élevée au Vectopôle de l'Institut Pasteur de la Guyane. Le moustique Aedes aegypti est vecteur de la dengue, du chikungunya, de la fièvre jaune et de zika.
News
2026.05.05
Chikungunya, dengue, Zika – what are the risks in mainland France?
  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...
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 - psoriasis - prurit - pruritus
News
2026.01.15
Research
Psoriasis: Unraveling the Causes of Chronic Itching
  Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that affects nearly 125 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. While red...
psoriasispruritusinflammatory skin diseaseschronic itching
Vidéo
2025.12.12
The inverted heart
What if your heart had been built upside down? Normally, the heart has four chambers: two atria at the top and two ventricles at the bottom. The right...
Streptococcus pneumoniae - Institut Pasteur
News
2025.11.17
A new class of molecules to combat resistant bacteria
    Scientists from Chimie ParisTech – PSL and the Institut Pasteur (Université Paris Cité) have published a discovery in the Journal of the American Chemical...
Pneumococciantimicrobial treatments
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
Vidéo
2025.09.23
Leprosy: revelation
What if the history of leprosy had to be rewritten? Nicolás Rascovan, a researcher at the Institut Pasteur, reveals a discovery that challenges everything we...

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