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News | 2020.02.18
The Chinese Ambassador to France visits the Institut Pasteur
On Friday February 14, 2020, Stewart Cole, President of the Institut Pasteur, played host to His Excellency Mr Lu Shaye, Chinese Ambassador to France, who was visiting the Institut Pasteur to show support both personally and on behalf of his country for the Institut Pasteur’s efforts in response to the novel coronavirus outbreak. The visit provided an opportunity to introduce the ambassador and...
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News | 2020.02.26
Novel coronavirus: what we know about the Covid-19 disease
During the weekend of February 22-23, 2020, the epidemic situation evolved worldwide with the intensification of outbreaks in South Korea, Japan and Singapore, and the appearance of new outbreaks in Iran and Italy. In these countries, we are witnessing a community transmission with no identified link with cases imported from China. This situation raises many questions. How is the disease...
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News | 2020.02.27
Foreign travel – a tonic for the health?
All travelers can come into contact with health risks that are completely different from those they generally encounter on a daily basis. So it is vital to prepare thoroughly for any trip – and that involves consulting a specialist travel clinic such as the Institut Pasteur Medical Center (CMIP).Travel is a formative experience for young people – and young people often take a casual attitude to...
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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...
