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Document de presse | 2009.03.17
The biodiversity of microorganisms: EMbaRC, a European program for the conservation and promotion of microbial resources
A European consortium of microbial resource centers was launched on March 18, 2009. Known as EMbaRC, its particular objective is to harmonize systems of keeping and identifying bacteria and microscopic fungi in the different European countries, and also to develop DNA banks and strengthen bio-security. In this way it aims to encourage the conservation and promotion of microbial biodiversity....
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Document de presse | 2009.03.04
Discovery of a new antibiotic resistance strategy
Thanks to their high capacity for adaptation, bacteria progressively learn how to resist antibiotic treatments. French scientists from Inserm, Paris Descartes University, INRA, Pasteur Institute, and the CNRS have recently shown that one of their strategies consists in the diversion of fatty acids present in human blood for their own growth. These studies are published in the review Nature on 5...
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Document de presse | 2009.02.25
Ovarian insufficiency: a genetic cause identified
Researchers from the Institut Pasteur have identified genetic mutations responsible for cases of ovarian insufficiency, a term that covers various disorders affecting female fertility, from the absence of ovaries to ovarian dysfunction. This discovery, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, opens up new avenues for diagnosis and genetic counseling. Press release Paris,...
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Document de presse | 2009.02.04
A yeast for studying neurodegenerative diseases
A team from the Institut Pasteur working with the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research) has shown in an article published in the EMBO Journal that a yeast can be used as a cell model for a rare and severe neurodegenerative disease affecting adolescents. This discovery could provide researchers with an unexpected and particularly effective tool for studying the genetics of this...
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Document de presse | 2009.01.14
Vaccine against shigellosis (bacillary dysentery):a promising clinical trial
The results of a clinical trial aimed to assess the effectiveness of an oral vaccine against Shigella dysenteriae serotype 1, the bacterium responsible for the epidemic form of Shigellosis or bacillary dysentery, a severe and often fatal diarrheic disease, have just been published in the journal Vaccine. Developed by a team from the Institut Pasteur and Inserm, this vaccine proved to be well...
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Document de presse | 2008.11.04
Nicotine: a receptor from the past helping to develop drugs of the future
Researchers at the Institut Pasteur and CNRS have just determined the structure of a bacterial protein similar to the human nicotine receptor, and have published this result in the journal Nature. This is an important step for the molecular modeling of substances able to interact with this receptor and which could help treatment of nicotine addiction. Nicotine is the principal substance in...
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Document de presse | 2008.10.22
A new source of neurons in the adult brain
Researchers at the Institut Pasteur and CNRS have just identified a new source of neurons in the adult brain. Their study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, provides proof of the brain's intrinsic capacity to self-repair. This work also opens unexpected perspectives for the development of therapies, particularly the treatment of neurodegenerative pathologies, such as Parkinson's...
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Document de presse | 2008.10.13
A new mechanism of resistance to dengue virus
It is becoming increasingly common to see individuals infected by the dengue virus who develop an ultimately fatal hemorrhagic syndrome, particularly in children during epidemics. However, in most cases, dengue remains a generally benign or even asymptomatic viral infection. One explanation for this phenomenon has just been put forward by researchers from CNRS , Institut Pasteur ,...
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Document de presse | 2008.10.07
Distorting sounds for improved hearing
How research into hereditary deafness has revealed the way in which the inner ear distorts sounds A study carried out by researchers from the Institut Pasteur and Inserm, published in the journal Nature, has revealed how the inner ear distorts sounds. This distortion is one of the essential stages in the processing of sound by the ear, before this sound is encoded so that it can be transmitted to...
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Document de presse | 2008.10.05
Nobel Prize in Medicine 2008 awarded to Professors Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier
The Nobel Prize in Medicine 2008 has been awarded to Professors Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier for their discovery of the human immunodeficiency (AIDS) virus in 1983 at the Institut Pasteur, and to Prof. Harald zur Hausen for his discovery of the human papillomavirus, which is responsible for cervical cancer. Press releaseParis, october 6, 2008 “Twenty five...
