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Document de presse | 2021.02.12
Heat islands and lack of running water promote dengue fever in Delhi, India
What if more inclusive urban planning for poor populations was key to fighting dengue fever? This is what researchers from the CNRS, the Institut Pasteur and the Indian Council of Medical Research1 have demonstrated using a geographical approach applied to the greater city of Delhi (India). Their study is published in the journal PLOS Neglected Tropical Disease on 11 February 2021. Dengue is a...
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Document de presse | 2021.02.12
Comment: The tortuous path to ending the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated health-care systems, shut down schools and communities, and plunged the world into an economic recession. While 2020 was a challenging year, 2021 looks to be difficult with the emergence of multiple variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The race to vaccinate the world will need to respond to the pathogen's constant evolution...
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News | 2021.02.15
Discovery of messenger RNA in 1961
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, words that just a year ago would have been the preserve of scientists have entered everyday language. One example is PCR, used for diagnostic tests. Another term that was once unfamiliar and is now on everyone's lips is messenger RNA, the miraculous molecule that has led to vaccines being administered to the general population less than a year after...
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News | 2021.02.16
Quantitative biological image analysis and cell motility
Biological image analysis using mathematical methods, artificial intelligence and computer visualization techniques has become an essential tool for biological research and an effective driver for new discoveries. In a publication in Patterns (Cell Press)1, scientists from the "Bioimage Analysis Unit" recently presented the results of multidisciplinary research using quantitative image...
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Document de presse | 2021.02.18
Improving immunotherapies for blood cancers: real-time exploration in the tumor
Monoclonal antibodies are part of the therapeutic arsenal for eliminating cancer cells. Some make use of the immune system to act and belong to a class of treatment called "immunotherapies." But how do these antibodies function within the tumor? And how can we hope to improve their efficacy? Using innovative in vivo imaging approaches, scientists from the Institut Pasteur and Inserm visualized in...
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Report | 2021.03.18
Hearing loss: stepping up research
In recent years, progress in research on hearing mechanisms and the factors responsible for hearing disorders has raised hopes for future preventive and curative therapies. Currently the only solutions for hearing loss are external hearing aids and cochlear implants. The issue is becoming increasingly urgent given the number of people affected by hearing loss, the most common sensory disorder in...
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Document de presse | 2021.02.26
Covid-19: Keeping schools as safe as possible
A year into the pandemic, and confronted with continued resurgence in transmission, over 800 million schoolchildren, more than half the world’s student population, still face substantial disruptions to their education. These range from full school closures in 31 countries to reduced or part time academic schedules in another 48 countries. Some countries, such as Norway and France, chose largely...
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News | 2021.03.01
BIGPICTURE: artificial intelligence for a European database of pathology images
The Institut Pasteur's Biological Image Analysis Unit is taking part in a new project selected by the EU's Innovative Medicines Initiative. The project, BIGPICTURE, aims to speed up the development of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine, especially in biomedical image analysis.A new consortium selected by the EU's Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) intends to develop the biggest database...
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News | 2021.03.01
How does hearing work?
What we generally refer to as the ear is only the visible part. In reality the ear is made up of three parts: the outer, middle and inner ear. The outer ear, also known as the auricle or pinna, serves as an acoustic antenna and sensor. Sounds enter the external auditory canal.Sound waves then cause the eardrum to vibrate. The eardrum is stretched across the middle ear, which is situated in a...
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News | 2021.03.03
Primary Immunodeficiencies: launch of the second phase of the ATun-DIP's project in the North-Western regions of Tunisia
After more than three years of activities in the underprivileged regions of the Centre and South of Tunisia, the second phase of the ATun-DIP's project (Improvement of the management of Tunisian children suffering from Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases) started on February the 4th, 2021. The project, coordinated by the Institut Pasteur de Tunis in collaboration with several partners including the...
