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2022.01.18
Antibiotic resistance is a major public health challenge when it comes to tackling infectious diseases. The Institut Pasteur identified antimicrobial...
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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...
Document de presse
2021.10.26
The SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, primarily targets the respiratory tract, but its ability to infect cells of the nervous system has...
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2020.05.05
Known to kill bacteria, can antibiotics also interfere with our immune system? Researchers at the Pasteur Institute have discovered that a new molecule, used...
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2020.03.20
The 3D organization of chromosomes plays a role in many biological processes. The ring formed by the cohesin complex is an important regulator of this...
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2021.05.31
Diphtheria is a severe infection caused in humans by toxigenic strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae bacteria. If left untreated, it leads to death in 5 to 25...
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2021.06.01
The structure of DNA and chromosomes is a major focus of research, but still holds a number of mysteries. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS...
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2021.05.21
Dominant optic atrophy (DOA) is one of the most common forms of mitochondrial disease. It can be caused by genetic mutations in OPA1 resulting in mitochondrial...
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2020.02.08
In nature, female mosquitoes take successive blood meals during which they are exposed to a variety of microbes present in the host. In Africa, Trypanosoma...
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2020.10.24
α1β2γ2 GABAA receptors mediate most inhibitory synaptic transmission in the brain, and are the target of widely used therapeutic drugs such as benzodiazepines...