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Article | 2016.11.10
The final years 1877-1887
Between the age of 55 and 65 Louis Pasteur developed microbiology, applying it to medicine and surgery. Having established that diseases were caused by microorganisms, he then sought to identify and find a means of fighting them. His finest accomplishment was rabies.
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Document de presse | 2017.02.24
Link between a virus and sexual reproduction on Earth
By formally identifying the main player in the fusion between male and female sex cells, researchers from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS and Paris Descartes University, together with American and German teams, have revealed the probable viral origin of this fusion process, which is common to a vast number of living organisms on Earth. In addition, the study provides new lines of research for...
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Article | 2017.03.09
Persistent Viral Infections and Immune evasion
SummaryThis course is located at the intersection between virology and immunology. The aim of the course is to educate graduates and post-graduates with understanding and expertise in virology, with a particular focus on persistent viruses and the mechanisms by which viruses escape from the immune system. This specific theoretical knowledge will provide students with the critical judgement and...
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Article | 2017.08.18
1st workshop on Translational Venomic Medecine
1ST WORKSHOP ON TRANSLATIONAL VENOMICS MEDICINE CHALLENGING HUMAN ENVENOMING ISSUES - EXPLORING & EXPLOITING SNAKE & SCORPION VENOMS & ANTIVENOMS
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Document de presse | 2017.09.01
The bacteria responsible for Legionellosis modulates the host cell metabolism to its advantage
Scientists at the Institut Pasteur, CNRS and Inserm, together with a team from Switzerland*, have shown that the bacterial pathogen Legionella pneumophila (the causative agent of Legionnaires’ disease or legionellosis) has developed a specific strategy to target the host cell mitochondria, the organelles in charge of cellular bioenergetics. By changing the shape of these host organelles, L....
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Document de presse | 2017.11.03
Rift Valley fever virus: an infection mechanism identified
Rift Valley fever virus, transmitted by mosquitoes, is responsible for outbreaks in livestock in Africa and can also be fatal in humans. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS, working with the University of Göttingen, have characterized the mechanism used by the virus to insert one of its envelope proteins into the host cell membrane, thereby enabling it to infect the cell. They have...
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Article | 2018.01.30
Perilic project: Studying the protection of pertussis vaccination
A unique study on whooping cough (pertussis), in three regions of the world, estimates the duration of protection from the various vaccinations against pertussis.
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News | 2018.03.29
New insight into body's response to killer fungus
Scientists at the University of Aberdeen, with colleagues from several institutions, including the Institut Pasteur, have made a new discovery that could help in the fight against a fungus that kills around 200,000 people every year and causes lung and allergic diseases in millions of others.The study, carried out in collaboration with a number of institutions**, including the Institut...
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News | 2018.05.22
Tiger mosquitoes: heightened surveillance in France, from May to November 2018
On Monday April 30, 2018, the French Ministry of Health announced that it was stepping up surveillance of the tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, which is now present in 42 French départements – twice as many as two years ago. But just how dangerous is this mosquito, vector of diseases such as dengue, chikungunya or zika?The tiger mosquito (see What is the "tiger mosquito" (Aedes albopictus)?) is...
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Document de presse | 2018.12.21
A novel antibiotic resistance mechanism
Bacteria make use of a number of natural resistance strategies to overcome antibiotics. And it seems that this bacterial toolbox may be much more varied than previously thought. Scientists at the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with Inserm, INRA, the CNRS and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, have recently revealed an entirely unknown resistance mechanism in Listeria monocytogenes...