immune system
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2026.05.26
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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2026.05.26
#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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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
What I'm researching
My research involves studying the interactions between mosquitoes and viruses. When a mosquito bites us, it takes some of our blood to...
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2026.04.24
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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2026.03.25
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...
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2026.03.12
Since its emergence, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has not stopped evolving. Each new variant accumulates mutations in its spike protein, the 'key' enabling it to...
Vidéo
2026.03.05
She creates neurons in the laboratory to understand Alzheimer's disease.
Veranika Panasenkava, a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut Pasteur, creates brain...
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2026.02.20
Women and men do not have the same immunity.
Molly Ingersoll, a researcher at the Institut Pasteur, explains why.
In women, the immune response is faster and...
