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2026.05.07
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...
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2026.05.12
This article is part of a series presenting the research projects of the scientists selected in 2025 by the Institut Pasteur to launch their 5-year research...
Portrait
2026.03.30
A childhood shaped by science and empathy
Guillemette Masse-Ranson was born in northern France before moving to Greater Paris when she was five. She was...
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2026.05.05
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...
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2026.02.06
In 2023, scientists from the Institut Pasteur discovered that natural killer (NK) cells can develop an immune memory against Streptococcus pneumoniae, also...
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2025.12.18
Updated on April 16, 2026.
Read the report on the 2025–2026 season for respiratory infections in France (in French), published by French Health Authorities...
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2025.12.18
Every winter, viruses affect millions of people in France, placing huge pressure on healthcare facilities. Given the diverse nature of these viruses and...
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2025.11.17
Scientists from Chimie ParisTech – PSL and the Institut Pasteur (Université Paris Cité) have published a discovery in the Journal of the American Chemical...
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2025.11.06
Phages, or bacteriophages, are viruses that infect bacteria and play a central role in the dynamics, evolution and adaptation of microbial communities....
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2025.10.15
In 1965, Jacques Monod, Jeffries Wyman and Jean-Pierre Changeux published an article(1) that would transform molecular biology. It described their discovery...