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News | 2019.07.23
Shedding light on almost indestructible archaeal pili
Extremophiles are organisms that have evolved to thrive under extremely harsh environmental conditions. Scientists have always been mystified by how these organisms survive in such settings and especially how extracellular appendages, such as pili, remain stable. Researchers from the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Virginia revealed how sugars make those...
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News | 2019.07.17
The Institut Pasteur launches a Scientific Platform in the university of São Paulo Research and Innovation Center
On July 4, the Institut Pasteur, an internationally renowned center for biomedical research and a French non-profit foundation specialized in infectious diseases, has inaugurated the Pasteur-USP Scientific Platform in the University of São Paulo Research and Innovation Center (Inova USP) which is hosting 17 laboratories dedicated to innovation. This platform will focus on the study of pathogens...
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News | 2019.07.11
A fast likelihood method to reconstruct and visualize ancestral scenarios
The Institut Pasteur is at the forefront of computational biology research. Scientists in the Evolutionary Bioinformatics Unit (part of Institut Pasteur and CNRS Unit, USR 3756) recently developed the PastML program. This tool, based on decision-theory concepts, infers "ancestral scenarios" that describe the evolution of traits or characters along phylogenetic trees. The characters can be very...
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News | 2019.07.12
Wolbachia, bacteria to combat dengue
The first mosquitoes carrying Wolbachia, bacteria that prevent them from transmitting arboviruses (including dengue, Zika and chikungunya), were released on Wednesday July 10, 2019 in Nouméa, New Caledonia, as part of the World Mosquito Program,* which involves teams from the Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle-Calédonie. The aim of this program is to encourage mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia to...
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News | 2019.07.25
Aimee Wessel and Raphaël Tomasi win the i-Lab award for their MultiScreen project
On July 4, the i-Lab innovation competition unveiled the names of its 75 winners, which this year included Aimee Wessel and Raphaël Tomasi from the Physical Microfluidics and Bioengineering Unit (Institut Pasteur/École Polytechnique/CNRS). Sponsored by the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation and organized in partnership with Bpifrance Financement, i-Lab is France's...
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News | 2019.08.28
The 2018 Institut Pasteur Annual Report is available
The year 2018 has been exceptional in several ways. It was marked by the celebration of the 130th anniversary of the Institut Pasteur and the arrival of a new President. The adoption of its 2019-2023 Strategic Plan offers a new ambition for the institute, and recalls that human health is at the heart of its mission. "The Institut Pasteur in 2018" video. Copyright: Institut Pasteur / La...
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Document de presse | 2019.08.12
Cervical cancer: New test enhances ability to predict risk
The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics and the Institut Pasteur report that a new test enhances ability to predict risk of developing cervical cancer in human papillomavirus (HPV)-positive women. This two-fold test is capable of detecting and determining the type of HPV infection as well as the likelihood of progressing to cancer.Philadelphia, August 12, 2019 – Ninety-nine percent of cervical...
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Report | 2019.09.02
French Bioethics Law: an original participatory approach for the National Bioethics Consultation
A bioethics bill was tabled at the French Council of Ministers on Wednesday July 24, 2019. As the bill is examined by the French Parliament in September, it is a good opportunity to look at how this process came about and examine the contribution made by the French National Consultative Ethics Committee (CCNE). The CCNE Chairman, Professor Jean-François Delfraissy, came to the Institut Pasteur on...
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News | 2019.09.06
Whooping cough: elucidation of a critical stage in the action of the CyaA toxin
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur are investigating CyaA, one of the major toxins of Bordetella pertussis. This bacterium is responsible for whooping cough, a disease that is currently on the rise. Acylation is a biochemical reaction in which an acyl chain is added to a molecule. It was already known that the CyaA protein was acylated in Bordetella pertussis. The scientists used a combination...
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News | 2019.09.09
Depression: the key role of neuroinflammation
Depression is a complex multifactorial condition whose underlying mechanisms have still not been elucidated. Available treatments are therefore far from effective, and it is estimated that 30% of patients are resistant to conventional treatment. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with teams from Sainte-Anne Hospital, have shed light on the role of brain inflammation as a...
