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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...
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Ixodes ricinus nymphe
News
2026.05.26
Three questions about ticks: How many species are there? What pathogens do they spread? What is the health risk?
  #1- How many species of ticks are there in the world, and how many in France? Ticks are arachnids (like spiders or scorpions) belonging to the subclass Acari...
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Cassandra KOH, portrait photographique
Portrait
2026.05.11
Vaccinations
Cassandra Koh: One mosquito, billions of viruses – a daunting task
Borneo, aged 16 – a genetics class that changed everything The story begins in Pontianak, an Indonesian city on the island of Borneo, with a biology class that...
Mosquitoes ; Vector-borne diseases
Hantavirus - Institut Pasteur
News
2026.05.12
Epidemiological news
Andes virus on the MV Hondius cruise ship: what we know about this rare and potentially fatal hantavirus
  **Updated on May 22, 2026.** ** This text was translated using an AI-powered translation tool ** Hantaviruses comprise a large number of viruses whose...
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Expérience en laboratoire
News
2026.04.24
Vaccins
A guide to the different types of vaccine
  Live attenuated vaccines Principle: a weakened or very similar version of the virus or bacteria is used. This weakened microbe is no longer capable of...
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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...
Fabriquer des neurones
Vidéo
2026.03.05
Making neurons
She creates neurons in the laboratory to understand Alzheimer's disease. Veranika Panasenkava, a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut Pasteur, creates brain...
Vidéo
2026.01.19
Cells at war
Did you know that some cancer cells crush their neighbors? It's a real battle of forces going on inside our tissues! Tumor cells become harder and more...

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