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2018.01.23
As the Institut Pasteur prepares to celebrate its 130th anniversary on November 14, 2018, we talk to Jean-Pierre Changeux about the discovery of this ion...
Document de presse
2017.12.11
A team of researchers from ZIKAlliance discovers a specific mechanism of the infection
Epidemiological studies show that in utero fetal infection with the Zika...
News
2017.11.16
As the Institut Pasteur enters the 130th year of its existence (the anniversary will be celebrated on November 14, 2018), the book Institut Pasteur: Today's...
Document de presse
2017.11.10
Researchers at the Institut Pasteur and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, in collaboration with several other international institutions, recently published...
News
2017.10.09
Swiss-born Alexandre Yersin joined the Institut Pasteur in 1885 aged just 22 and worked under Émile Roux. He discovered the plague bacillus in Hong Kong. A...
Document de presse
2017.07.17
Malaria super-spreading mosquitoes can now be identified more easily. Researchers from the Institut Pasteur, CNRS and IRD, in collaboration with scientific...
Document de presse
2017.05.05
During a wave of expansion that began 4,000 to 5,000 years ago, Bantu-speaking populations – today some 310 million people – gradually left their original...
News
2017.03.30
Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases are a threat to public health, as we saw with SARS in 2003, the influenza (H1N1pdm09) pandemic in 2009, MERS-CoV...
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2017.03.02
Zika virus infection is usually asymptomatic or mild. However, it can sometimes lead to an autoimmune disease called Guillain-Barré syndrome. In rare patients...
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2016.09.22
Since the first cases of infection were identified in Brazil, in May 2015, the Zika virus has spread to over 46 countries in America. Several hypothesis are...