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Document de presse | 2014.02.04
Genomics challenges long-held beliefs surrounding the role of agriculture in African history
An extensive genomic study of pygmy hunter-gatherer populations and agricultural village communities, conducted in Central Africa by scientists from the Institut Pasteur and the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), in collaboration with the French National Museum of Natural History (MNHN), the University of Montreal and the University of Lyon 2, challenges the established...
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Document de presse | 2009.12.10
Malaria: a beneficial genetic mutation in South-East Asia
A large-scale evolutionary and epidemiological genetic study carried out over an eight-year period in Thailand has enabled Institut Pasteur and CNRS researchers to demonstrate that a mutation that is particularly widespread in some South-East Asian populations offers a higher level of resistance to malaria. This research, published in the December 11 issue of the journal Science, also reveals...
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Document de presse | 2007.04.09
AIDS: the cells that stop the virus
Rare individuals infected by the AIDS virus control the infection and do not develop the disease, in spite of more than ten years of being HIV positive and in the absence of treatment. A team from the Institut Pasteur and a team from Inserm U802, in collaboration with clinicians from Bicêtre Hospital, have just explained how these individuals succeed in controlling HIV. Their study, conducted...
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Document de presse | 2007.03.19
Researchers sound the alarm:
Could multidrug resistance become widespread among strains of the plague bacillus? The study of a fragment of mobile DNA conferring to Yersinia pestis resistance against numerous antibiotics has shown that similar elements are present in bacteria found in food products in recent years in the United States, raising fears among researchers from the Institut Pasteur and The Institute for Genomic...
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Document de presse | 2007.02.21
Aquatic Predator Insect Saliva May Protect Against Buruli Ulcer
Buruli ulcer is a necrotizing skin disease that is very disabling, caused by bacteria that inhabit aquatic environment. It is rife in several regions of the world and is developing at a disturbing rate in West Africa. Researchers at the Institut Pasteur and Inserm, working together with university and institute teams from the Institut Pasteur International Network, recently proved that the...
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Document de presse | 2006.10.25
Pertussis is still with us!
Whooping cough or pertussis is still the primary cause of death by bacterial infection in infants less than two months old, in France despite general vaccination. The endemicity of this infection is observed in many vaccinated countries. The agent of the disease, a bacterium, was isolated by the Pasteur scientist, Jules Bordet(1) in 1906. For this centenial, the Institut Pasteur is co-organising...
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Document de presse | 2005.01.10
SouthEast Asia: Institut Pasteur Mobilizes
In response to the risk of epidemics in the regions affected by the disaster, the Institut Pasteur, which is engaged in the battle against infectious diseases on a daily basis, has mobilized. The expert in charge of the Institut Pasteur Emergency Cell for Biological intervention (CIBU) is currently on a mission in Sri Lanka to participate in evaluating the risk of epidemics in this region. At the...
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Article | 2017.02.27
TT-RIIP International Course
TRANSGENIC TECHNOLOGIES in MODELING HUMAN DISEASES: Principles, Associated Technologies, Animal Management and Ethics
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Document de presse | 2017.02.27
Infravec2 project launch: A European Commission 10M€ effort to fight mosquito-transmitted diseases
On February 14, the European Commission officially approved the Infravec2 project . This project will improve the European large-scale facilities (infrastructures) for research on mosquitoes and other insects (vectors) that carry human and animal diseases, and will promote sharing of the facilities by European researchers. The Infravec2 project is funded by the Commission’s Horizon 2020...
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News | 2018.04.16
Halima Maïnassara: from field investigator to director of CERMES in Niger
In February 2017, Dr Halima Maïnassara is the first woman from Niger to be appointed Director General of the Center for Medical and Health Research (CERMES) in Niamey. Physician, epidemiologist expert in meningitis, she started to work for this public institution, member of the Institut Pasteur International Network, in February 2005 as a field investigator.Since primary school, Halima Boubacar...