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News | 2021.02.02
Glioblastoma : Tunelling nanotubles could be a new therapeutic target
Cancer is the leading cause of mortality in France. In the last 40 years, survival rates have increased for several types of cancer, such as breast or prostate cancer. However, brain cancer is still an incurable disease, as it usually becomes resistant to therapy and relapses in a relatively short time. The outcome is almost inexorably the patient death. Researchers headed by Chiara Zurzolo at...
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News | 2019.04.03
Discovery of a restriction factor for hepatitis B virus
Hepatitis B is a viral liver infection that can lead to acute or chronic conditions. Although there is a vaccine that offers protection against the virus, current treatments which prevent the virus from replicating are not curative for infected individuals. Scientists at the Institut Pasteur working in collaboration with the CNRS have demonstrated that a cellular protein is capable of acting as a...
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Document de presse | 2011.03.06
Powerful human DNA mutators identified
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), and the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (Inserm) have shown that a cellular protein, APOBEC3A, known for its antiviral activity, is also capable of mutagenic activity on human cell DNA. This discovery suggests that this protein plays a role in the cellular DNA degradation...
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News | 2018.09.17
Hepatitis B: to better identify patients eligible for treatment in Africa
Today, hepatitis B can be efficiently treated but the diagnosis tools to assess treatment eligibility are complex and their availability is scarce in Africa. To identify these patients, researchers from the Institut Pasteur in Paris and the Institut Pasteur de Dakar have developed a simple and efficient method that could easily be implemented in resource-limited countries.In 2016, WHO set up...
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Document de presse | 2011.12.18
Genetic diversity: crucial for our survival in many ways
Thanks to the sequencing of the 27 known human interferon genes, researchers from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS reconstruct the genetic history of these proteins so central for our immune system, and put forward potentially innovative ways to improve the clinical use of interferons in the treatment of pathologies such as Hepatitis C, multiple sclerosis, and some cancers. These results are...
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Document de presse | 2022.10.20
How SARS-CoV-2 communicates with human cells: mapping molecular contacts
Although the mechanisms by which SARS-CoV-2 enters host cells are increasingly well documented, the direct molecular interactions between virus and host remain poorly understood. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Université Paris Cité, the Institute of Network Biology (INET) Helmholtz Munich, the Donnelly Center for Cellular and...
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Article | 2019.07.09
Cours internationaux - 2019
TITLEORGANIZERINSTITUTEDURATION DATECOURSE PLACEAtelier NGS : Epidémiologie génomique, microbiome et métagénomique pour l'Afrique et l'Océan IndienJean-Marc COLLARDInstitut Pasteur Madagascar7 daysTo Be DefinedInstitut Pasteur MadagascarSystèmes d'information géographique appliquées à l'épidémiologie : Introduction au logiciel QGIS 2. Analyses multicritères spacialisées : Application en...
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Article | 2020.01.09
International Courses – 2020
TITLEORGANIZERDURATION (Days) DATESCOURSE PLACEBactériologie et Santé PubliqueMagali LAGO/ Paul MARTIN1005/10 –16/10Institut Pasteur MarocProteome Analysis by Mass SpectrometryRosario DURAN1019/10 – 28/10Institut Pasteur MontevideoHKU-Pasteur Cell Biology CourseRoberto BRUZZONE721/11 – 27/11Centre de Recherche Université de Hong-Kong-PasteurData analysis using StataYoann MADEC618/05 – 23/...
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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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Document de presse | 2006.06.24
Immortal DNA in skeletal muscle stem cells
Researchers at the Pasteur Institute show for the first time the mechanism which adult skeletal muscle stem cells can use to protect their genome from mutations. Before cell division, DNA is duplicated, and each daughter cell inherits one copy. During DNA synthesis, however, errors can arise from this imperfect process. Over time, repeated rounds of cell divisions result in the accumulation of...