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News | 2020.02.27
Inauguration of the Hearing Institute, an Institut Pasteur center
The Hearing Institute, an Institut Pasteur center, opened its doors on Thursday February 27, 2020. The new buildings will soon house cutting-edge auditory neuroscience research teams from the Institut Pasteur, Inserm and the CNRS. This center for basic and translational neuroscience research in the field of hearing was set up in June 2019 at the initiative of the Fondation Pour l'Audition and the...
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Portrait | 2020.03.05
Nicolas Michalski, an engineer tackling auditory neuroscience
The World Health Organization estimates that more than 5% of the world's population – some 466 million people – are affected by disabling hearing loss.Recent research has led to significant progress in elucidating the molecular physiology of the cochlea, the auditory sensory organ, but Nicolas Michalski has chosen to focus instead on the molecular physiology of the auditory pathways in the brain...
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News | 2020.03.10
Regulation of metabolic pathways: lessons from an intracellular bacterium
Bacteria that grow inside cells depend on their host cell for access to nutrients. Scientists from the Cellular Biology of Microbial Infection Unit at the Institut Pasteur have discovered that these bacteria exploit the regulation pathways in the host to adapt its metabolism to their own needs and facilitate their proliferation.The enzyme transglutaminase 2 is a protein that can be found in most...
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Document de presse | 2020.03.10
Cancer: the immune system attacks tumors remotely
How does the immune system act to limit tumor development? Using in vivo imaging tools, scientists from the Institut Pasteur and Inserm described the spatiotemporal activity of tumor-infiltrating T lymphocytes, both locally and remotely. Their research was published in the journal Nature Cancer on March 9, 2020.Some cells in the immune system, like T lymphocytes, are capable of attacking cancer...
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Article | 2020.03.16
Coronavirus: all COVID-19 news from the Institut Pasteur
On January 9, 2020, Chinese health authorities and the World Health Organization (WHO) officially announced the discovery of a novel coronavirus (first named 2019-nCoV, then officially SARS-CoV-2). This new virus is the pathogen responsible for the infectious respiratory disease called COVID-19 (CoronaVIrus Disease). Following the announcement of the first cases and the declaration of...
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News | 2020.03.17
Depression and the efficacy of antidepressants depend on the composition of the gut microbiota
Does a healthy microbiota lead to a healthy mind? A joint study between the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS and Inserm has revealed the highly specific profile of the gut bacterial population in a mouse model used to study depression. When the bacterial population is transferred to healthy mice, they exhibit behaviors associated with depression within a few days. This can be explained by the fact that...
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News | 2020.10.22
Coronavirus: Institut Pasteur warns against false information circulating on social media
-ENGLISH VERSION COMING SOON-Mis à jour le 20 mars 2023.En 2020-2021, lorsque la pandémie de Covid-19 était à son pic, de nombreuses informations circulaient dans les médias, sur les réseaux sociaux, les messageries instantanées, etc. Ces messages ont pu parfois contenir des informations erronées ou s’appuyant sur des propos attribués à tort à des chercheurs de l’Institut Pasteur à...
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Document de presse | 2020.03.19
CEPI collaborates with the Institut Pasteur in a consortium to develop Covid-19 vaccine
Consortium to be led by the Institut Pasteur and will include Themis and the University of Pittsburgh.CEPI to provide initial US$4.9 million for consortium to develop a Covid-19 vaccine candidate based on measles-vector technology.Partnership becomes eighth Covid-19 vaccine development project that CEPI has signed since Jan 23, 2020 OSLO, NORWAY, March 19, 2020 – CEPI, the Coalition for...
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Document de presse | 2020.03.20
Editorial: Facing challenges with the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 outbreak
On December 31, 2019, Chinese authorities reported a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China, most of which included patients whoreported exposure to a seafood market selling live animals. Emergence of a new pathogenic zoonotic coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was suspected. How can we face the challenges with the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 outbreak?Read the editorial of Pr Sylvie van der Werf and...
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Page avancée | 2020.03.27
Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 : the Institut Pasteur mobilization
Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 : the Institut Pasteur mobilization
