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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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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 | 2022.09.22
Sara and Parisa Khalilian: twin theses
It's hard to miss this pair on the Institut Pasteur campus in Paris. Obviously they're twins, but there's more to them than that. Even a brief encounter with these two characters gives a sense of their energy, curiosity and abundant optimism. Full of enthusiasm, they take turns to tell us about the unique journey that led to them completing their theses at the Institut Pasteur. These determined,...
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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)...
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Portrait | 2024.01.15
Sarah Dellière: from hospital to lab, a scientist without borders
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood." These words from Marie Curie neatly sum up the philosophy and career of Sarah Dellière. She is determined, optimistic and adventurous, and she loves stepping out of her comfort zone to embrace new experiences and further deepen her knowledge.At the age of just 17, Sarah Dellière began traveling to far-flung corners of the world to...
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News | 2025.10.15
Allostery: a revolution in molecular biology, in 1965
In 1965, the discovery of a mechanism known as allostery revolutionized our understanding of regulation in molecular biology. Sixty years on, we look back at a scientific and human journey that ushered in a new era of biochemistry and inspired huge swathes of research being conducted today.
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Document de presse | 2014.03.10
Inauguration of a Regional Platform of Research on transmissible and emerging infectious diseases in Southeast Asia (PRR-Asia)
Southeast Asia (SEA) is affected by emerging infectious diseases, and emerging outbreaks challenge the medical and scientific communities. The emergence of new diseases or their resistance to anti-microbial drugs in SEA is a complex mechanism which requires more interest on the diseases, on the condition of their emergence and on the diffusion of the causative agents. The study of infection...