News
2023.02.06
Our intestine contains hundreds of billions of bacteria: this is the gut microbiota. Ilya Mechnikov had proposed that an imbalance between the different...
News
2023.01.24
Our gut contains thousands of billions of microorganisms, many more than the number of cells that make up our body. These microorganisms form what is known...
News
2023.01.16
Very little is known about what happens when an individual’s genetic makeup doesn’t match their physical sex. This is manifested as a spectrum of conditions...
News
2022.11.02
Physical forces are essential to biological function, but their impact at the tissue level is not fully understood. The gut is under continuous mechanical...
News
2022.09.01
Scientists have identified two proteins involved in the invasion of glioblastoma, a type of tumor that affects some brain cells. Targeting the action of these...
News
2022.08.24
The intestinal mucosa is a key site for interaction and exchange with the external environment. It is therefore under constant surveillance from the immune...
News
2022.07.11
Most of our tissues are constantly renewed and needs to get rid of dying cells without affecting their organisation. A newly identified mechanism is...
Portrait
2022.06.24
It's a day of strikes in Paris and the French capital is virtually paralyzed, but it will take more than that to stop Sandrine Etienne-Manneville from arriving...
News
2022.03.22
In view of the ongoing war in Ukraine, the Institut Pasteur is providing funding to host Ukrainian scientists in its research laboratories.
The Institut...
Document de presse
2022.02.25
The innate immune system plays a crucial role in regulating host-microbe interactions, and especially in providing protection against pathogens that invade the...