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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...
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Événement | 2022.12.02
Epidemic, pandemic... Infodemic: the other health emergency
The symposium called "Epidemic, pandemic... Infodemic: the other health emergency", organized by Université Paris Cité and the Institut Pasteur, will be held on December 2, 2022. This event will take place at the Institut Pasteur (Paris, 15th arrondissement), in French. Registration is free but mandatory.(This event will be held in French)Les questions de communication et d’information...
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News | 2022.03.22
Ukrainian scientists: offer to join a host laboratory at the Institut Pasteur in Paris
In view of the ongoing war in Ukraine, the Institut Pasteur is providing funding to host Ukrainian scientists in its research laboratories.
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Article | 2025.08.19
Genesis of diseases - Pasteur 2030
Chronic diseases are progressing and affecting younger populations. Institut Pasteur studies the underlying mechanisms of non-communicable diseases and inflammation.
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Document de presse | 2022.07.21
SARS-CoV-2 hijacks nanotubes between neurons to infect them
COVID-19 often leads to neurological symptoms, such as a loss of taste or smell, or cognitive impairments (including memory loss and concentration difficulties), both during the acute phase of the disease and over the long term with "long COVID" syndrome. But the way in which the infection reaches the brain was previously unknown. Scientists from Institut Pasteur and CNRS laboratories have used...
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News | 2023.02.28
Health crises, information crises: exploring the roots of the term "infodemic"
How do the epidemiological and media dimensions of a health crisis fit together? How is the spread of a virus linked to the spread of information about it? Several scientists, communication experts and ethics specialists came together to explore these questions at a conference held at the Institut Pasteur in December.
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Document de presse | 2022.03.29
SARS-CoV-2: neutralization of BA.1 and BA.2 by therapeutic monoclonal antibodies
The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1 sublineage has been supplanted in many countries by the BA.2 sublineage. Although Omicron is responsible for less severe forms in the general population, immunocompromised people are still at higher risk of developing severe forms of COVID-19. Several monoclonal antibodies are currently available in clinical practice as a preventive treatment for these patients....
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News | 2023.02.22
Collaboration with UCSF QBI: Institut Pasteur establishes presence in USA
A delegation from the Institut Pasteur will visit San Francisco during the week of February 28 to March 2, 2023, to present a series of events and workshops that will provide an overview of the Institut Pasteur-UCSF QBI partnership (Institut Pasteur-University of California, San Francisco, Quantitative Biosciences Institute). These events will also promote the establishment of a Center of...
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News | 2024.07.04
How coronavirus HKU1 forces its way into cells
Scientists have pinpointed the precise binding sites for the virus HKU1 in respiratory cells, providing a detailed picture of the infection mechanism used by the virus. Their findings shed light on other animal species that may host the virus and pave the way for the development of infection-blocking antibodies.
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News | 2021.02.08
Antibiotic response in bacteria: the role of membrane vesicles
Membrane vesicles (also known as extracellular vesicles) are produced by all kinds of organisms. They are small lipid bags that come off a donor cell and get internalized by a recipient cell. Their role is to carry biological information and they are described as key intercellular communication players. However, their role in the microbial world is still very much unknown. Researchers from the...
