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News | 2025.03.05
How the Immune System Regulates Breast Milk Production
The maternal immune system regulates lactation by differentiating the mammary glands during pregnancy. A specific population of lymphocytes promotes milk production and ejection, thereby improving the health of newborns. This discovery highlights the importance of maternal immune status and opens new avenues for addressing lactation challenges. The study was conducted by a team from the NIAID (...
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Portrait | 2025.04.10
Rayan Chikhi to analyze all the DNA sequenced on Earth!
« By analysing all the sequenced DNA available on Earth, we have ushered in a new era in health research.»
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News | 2025.05.22
Steroid hormone levels vary with age, sex ... and lifestyle
A large-scale ten-year study conducted by the Institut Pasteur on a thousand individuals has shed new light on steroid hormones. Levels of these molecules, which play a crucial role in our health, vary over time – sometimes to a significant extent – influenced by sex and lifestyle factors. The results of this research were recently published in Science Advances.
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Article | 2016.12.20
Microbiology
Bacteria have always been important research models at the Institut Pasteur. The Department of Microbiology studies bacteria, archaea and their viruses, through multidisciplinary approaches.
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Article | 2025.03.20
ALFI association
The Institut Pasteur has established a partnership with ALFI, a social and solidarity economy association of the Arcade-VYV Group, in order to offer 30 housing units to Pasteurians.
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News | 2023.04.03
Scientific outreach: exploring bacterial diversity... with art
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur have worked in collaboration with high school students from Bondy to showcase biodiversity in an original artistic format. This Bio-Art project is the result of a scientific outreach campaign in partnership with the Institut Pasteur.
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News | 2026.04.21
The Institut Pasteur and OpenAIRE Launch Strategic Partnership for Open Science Training
The Institut Pasteur and OpenAIRE have formalised a strategic collaboration through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at advancing Open Science training and strengthening research capacity across Europe. The partnership brings together the Institut Pasteur’s leadership in biomedical research, education, and public health with OpenAIRE’s expertise in open scholarly...
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Portrait | 2022.03.29
Jean-Claude Manuguerra: viruses, animals and humans
It all started with a veterinarian and a cross-eyed lionJean-Claude Manuguerra was 7 when he decided that he wanted to become a veterinarian, to "save animals" – like in the TV series Daktari, which he was an avid fan of at the time. In the series, Dr. Marsh Tracy was a vet who cared for local animals and ran the Wameru Study Center for Animal Behavior in Kenya. Marsh Tracy was aided in his day-...
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Portrait | 2023.04.14
Sarah Bonnet, tickologist and educator
Sarah Bonnet is a "tickologist" – she specializes in the study of ticks. More broadly, she is a veterinarian entomologist and medical, a professor and scientist with a passion for field work. Her research is focused on the little-known field of ticks and their many species. She is an enthusiastic educator who loves sharing her expertise and plans for future research. The upheavals we are...
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Document de presse | 2023.12.05
Improving the diagnosis of infection: a prospective study clarifies the role of an innovative metagenomic tool
Scientists from Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital (AP-HP), the Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Inserm, Université Paris-Est Créteil and the Alfort National Veterinary School, coordinated by Professor Marc Eloit and Dr. Anne Jamet in collaboration with Dr. Jacques Fourgeaud and Beatrice Regnault, studied the role of global genetic characterization of samples (or non-targeted metagenomics)...