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News | 2021.02.15
Discovery of messenger RNA in 1961
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, words that just a year ago would have been the preserve of scientists have entered everyday language. One example is PCR, used for diagnostic tests. Another term that was once unfamiliar and is now on everyone's lips is messenger RNA, the miraculous molecule that has led to vaccines being administered to the general population less than a year after...
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Document de presse | 2020.10.16
Team of international scientists identify common vulnerabilities across SARS-CoV-2, SARS-CoV-1 and MERS coronaviruses
Driven by Molecular Insights, Massive Analysis of Medical Records from ~740,000 SARS-CoV-2 Patients Reveal Treatment Regimens for Current, and Potential Future, Viral Pandemics. Published on October 15, 2020, in Science. In a study published online in Science, an international team of almost 200 researchers from 14 leading institutions in six countries, including France with the...
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News | 2023.06.16
Strategic Plan: research advances in 2022
Five major themes were at the core of 2022 research advances: emerging infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, brain connectivity and neurodegenerative diseases, cancer, vaccinology and immunotherapy. They have honored Institut Pasteur's 2019-2023 strategic plan.
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News | 2020.06.18
Phylogenetic analysis of SARS-CoV-2: strengths, limitations and over-interpretations
The Institut Pasteur's bioinformatics research teams have been closely involved in the response to COVID-19, working to analyze the sequencing data produced worldwide. On January 29, 2020, the Institut Pasteur, which is responsible for monitoring respiratory viruses in France, was the first in Europe to sequence the whole genome of the coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2. Since then, it has sequenced...
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News | 2023.09.05
HIV-AIDS: broadly neutralizing antibodies, stars of the lab
Highly promising, broadly neutralizing antibodies can react with the vast majority of HIV particles to cause their destruction by the body. However, the latter would have to be able to produce equally effective antibodies...
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Document de presse | 2020.01.31
Institut Pasteur isolates strains of coronavirus 2019-nCoV detected in France
As well as sequencing the whole genome of coronavirus 2019-nCoV, the Institut Pasteur continued to work on the samples taken from the first confirmed cases. The quality of these initial samples enabled rapid cell-culture isolation of the new virus. The Institut Pasteur's scientists now have access to the virus responsible for the infection. The isolation of the virus paves the way for new...
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News | 2021.07.09
The Institut Pasteur International Network is evolving and becoming the Pasteur Network
A new system of governance is being introduced for the Institut Pasteur International Network and its 33 members, which since 2011 have been part of the Pasteur International Network association, which was chaired by the Institut Pasteur President Stewart Cole. Ten years on, the Network is adopting a more participatory, balanced mode of governance and a more structured business model. The...
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Document de presse | 2022.01.24
Pierre Buffet appointed as Medical Director of the Institut Pasteur
Professor Pierre Buffet has been appointed as Medical Director of the Institut Pasteur. Pierre Buffet took up his post on January 3, 2022 within the Institut Pasteur's Department of Scientific Affairs. Professor Pierre Buffet has been appointed as Medical Director within the Institut Pasteur's Department of Scientific Affairs, led by Senior Executive Scientific Vice-President Christophe d'...
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Document de presse | 2022.04.20
When severe infection causes long-term mood disorders: A promising avenue to prevent mental illness following a transient infection
The brain is able to detect and regulate localized or systemic inflammation by using two communication pathways. The first, humoral, makes use of specific brain structures that enable circulating inflammatory mediators to enter the brain. The second, neural, involves nerves whose sensory afferents transmit the inflammatory signal detected at local level. The vagus nerve therefore uses identified...
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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...
