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News | 2023.04.25
Malaria: improving blood filtration by the spleen to stop the disease transmission
Malaria is a disease transmitted to humans by a mosquito bite, itself infected with a parasite. This parasite settles in the liver, then infects the red blood cells and destroys them. A Université Paris Cité - Inserm team, led by Prof. Pierre Buffet, Medical Vice-President of the Institut Pasteur, identifies two drugs likely to increase the efficiency of blood filtration by the spleen. This can...
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News | 2023.04.17
ComCor study: the impact of variants and circumstances of infection on the COVID-19 incubation period
The link between the viral variant and length of the COVID-19 incubation period is still a matter of debate. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur conducted a survey of thousands of volunteers for more than a year to provide an answer.
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News | 2023.04.11
Autoimmune diseases: why does our immune system turn against us?
Type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, vitiligo, Crohn's disease and Guillain-Barré syndrome – these seemingly different diseases all have one thing in common: they occur when a deregulation of the immune system causes it to “attack” the body that it is supposed to be protecting.
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News | 2023.02.20
Two effective new antiviral drugs for SARS-CoV-2
Scientists at the Institut Pasteur have successfully synthesized two novel molecules that are active against several variants of the virus responsible for COVID-19. The discovery could inspire new families of antiviral drugs against future emerging viral diseases.
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News | 2023.02.06
An explanation of the effects of the gut microbiota on the body
Interactions between the gut microbiota and its host regulate many metabolic processes. Researchers have been able to identify these interactions, paving the way for new therapeutic approaches.
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News | 2023.01.16
A new stem cell model to study sex determination in humans
A stem cell model allows researchers to observe the earliest stages of sex determination in humans. This could help uncover why some people are born without a clearly identifiable sex at birth, as well as the development of future fertility treatments.
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News | 2022.12.19
Human genome: multiple new variants detected
Scientists have recently supplemented our knowledge of the human genome by detecting thousands of "long" variants using an original technique.
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News | 2022.11.29
Antimicrobial resistance: a small signal triggers bacterial conjugation via a hitchhiking mechanism
In several plasmids of pathogenic bacteria, scientists have identified a sequence that enables bacterial conjugation to take place via a hitchhiking mechanism. This discovery is important as it sheds light on the process and its role in antimicrobial resistance.
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Événement | 2022.10.28
A bicentenary tribute to Louis Pasteur, Foreign Member of the Royal Society
To celebrate the bicentenary of Louis Pasteur's birth and pay tribute to this scientist who was a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, the Institut Pasteur and the Académie des sciences are organizing a symposium with support from the Royal Society. This symposium will present cutting-edge research in Louis Pasteur’s own research areas and promote international cooperation in science and...
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News | 2022.10.24
Artificial intelligence: an online platform to improve molecular-level analysis of living systems
State-of-the-art super-resolution microscopes enable us to observe biological structures at resolutions approaching molecular scale. A good example is single-molecule localization microscopy (SMLM). Although this microscopy technique is widely used in life sciences, the vast majority of SMLM images produced are not shared with the scientific community. But these data have real value, not...
