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News | 2017.10.19
Explanation and advice following the case of rabies in France
The unfortunate and exceptional case of rabies in France (in October, 2017) highlights the need to inquire about the potential risks when traveling abroad beforehand. The disease is always fatal once the first clinical signs have appeared and is responsible for 59,000 deaths worldwide annually. There is currently no effective treatment after the onset of clinical signs.When traveling abroad...
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News | 2017.11.22
Plague outbreak: advice for travelers to Madagascar
An outbreak of pneumonic plague has been ongoing in Madagascar for several weeks. As indicated on the World Health Organization (WHO) website, "based on the available information to date, the risk of international spread of plague appears very low." WHO therefore advises against imposing any travel or trade restrictions on Madagascar. Here are some advice from the Institut Pasteur Medical Center....
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Article | 2019.04.03
CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2019 Pasteur Joint International Research Unit Partnership within IPIN
To strengthen the partnership with institutes from the Institut Pasteur International Network (IPIN), the Institut Pasteur (IP) will support the creation of two Pasteur International Joint Research Units (PIU/IP-RIIP).
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Article | 2020.01.28
Practical information
Who can use the library?The library's collections of the Scientific Information Resources Center (CeRIS) are available to all staff, interns and students at the Institut Pasteur, with no specific conditions.For external usersAccess, by appointment only, and after a justified request to consult a document that we would be the only library to own in the Ile-de-France region, is restricted to:...
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Article | 2020.08.20
Industrial property
The Institut Pasteur is in the world's top 10 list for US and European patents granted in the field of life sciences for the period 2010-2014.
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Document de presse | 2020.09.10
Editorial: How can we reach a level of herd immunity that will protect us from COVID-19?
Epidemiological theory teaches us that a microbial agent introduced into a population stops circulating when the proportion of the population that is immune to that agent is higher than or equal to 1-1/R0, where R0 is the much-discussed reproduction rate, the number of secondary cases generated by each infected person in a non-immune population in the absence of control measures. In France, where...
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News | 2021.03.01
How does hearing work?
What we generally refer to as the ear is only the visible part. In reality the ear is made up of three parts: the outer, middle and inner ear. The outer ear, also known as the auricle or pinna, serves as an acoustic antenna and sensor. Sounds enter the external auditory canal.Sound waves then cause the eardrum to vibrate. The eardrum is stretched across the middle ear, which is situated in a...
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News | 2020.03.19
Discovery of numerous potential open reading frames in the Cryptococcus genome
Gene structure, including the transcript leader, is very diverse in fungi. New sequencing data analysis from the RNA Biology of Fungal Pathogens unit revealed that in the pathogenic yeasts Cryptococcus, the transcript leader sequence are rich in potential upstream Open Reading Frames, which regulate both gene expression and protein diversity.Pathogenic Cryptococcus species are responsible for...
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Document de presse | 2021.08.26
COVID-19: Will telecommuting strategies stop the virus from circulating?
How can we best organise on-site workplace and school attendance periods and remote work to slow the circulation of Sars-CoV-2? Is it better to separate classes? Bring your whole team in at the same time? Set this up on daily or weekly schedules? The COVID-19 pandemic has forced most countries to impose contact limitations in workplaces, universities and schools. Scientists from the CNRS,...
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News | 2021.09.30
DIM ELICIT Symposium on Wednesday, October 20, 2021 at IPGG: registrations are open!
The DIM ELICIT (Empowering LIfe sCiences with Innovative Technologies) is organizing its closing event on Wednesday, October 20, 2021 at the Pierre-Gilles-de-Gennes Institute for Microfluidics (IPGG). The program will highlight the most emblematic projects of the DIM ELICIT with interventions in the form of pairs (biologist/technologist). This will be also an opportunity to exchange with the...