1. Report | 2022.05.18

   Malaria and the globalization of disease

   This 18 May 2022 is the centenary of the death of Alphonse Laveran, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine and discoverer of the protozoan responsible for malaria, which has caused hundreds of millions of deaths around the world since the dawn of humanity. Few diseases have left such a lasting legacy on the history and lives of humans as malaria. This parasitic disease, which tends to follow a...

2. News | 2022.05.23

   Understanding the transmission of antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

   To face the problem of antibiotic resistance, it is important to understand how bacterial strains develop competence to resist treatment. An international collaboration has identified how Staphylococcus aureus acquires resistance to a widely used antibiotic.

3. News | 2022.05.20

   The evolutionary history of Latin Americans unveiled

   An international publication, led by a researcher from the Institut Pasteur, provides the most comprehensive chronology of genetic adaptations in the Latin American population, before and after the arrival of Europeans.

4. News | 2022.04.28

   Understanding how the whooping cough bacterium has evolved in response to vaccination

   In a recent study stemming from an international partnership involving several Institut Pasteur scientists, work was carried out on modeling the spatial dynamics and evolution of Bordetella pertussis, the bacterium responsible for whooping cough.

5. News | 2021.11.24

   During DNA repair, a protein regulates homology search by reorganizing the genome

   Homologous recombination is one of the major pathways for repairing broken DNA. A study by scientists from the Institut Pasteur and ENS Lyon shows how a protein known as cohesin reorganizes the genome into loops to enable this process.

6. News | 2022.01.31

   A new method for identifying and typing Shigella strains

   A team from the Institut Pasteur and their international colleagues have recently validated a new method that uses the genome of Shigella bacteria to improve identification and typing.

7. News | 2022.01.11

   The bacterium causing legionellosis modifies the electrochemical potential of host mitochondria to better replicate

   The pathogen Legionella pneumophila modulates the biochemistry of the cell it infects for its own benefit. The bacterium stops mitochondrial respiration, while maintaining the membrane potential of the mitochondria to delay the destruction of the cell.

8. News | 2022.01.17

   Institut Pasteur part of an international network for the development of new antimicrobials

   Scientists from twelve countries have recently joined forces to develop a program to identify new antimicrobial molecules. The project is based around the IRAADD, an international cooperation network of which the Institut Pasteur is a member.

9. News | 2022.03.07

   Cognition in Drosophila flies more developed than previously thought

   A study demonstrates the learning and attention capacity of Drosophila, paving the way for a potential model for cognitive science research.

10. News | 2022.06.03

    Tackling fungal infections more effectively through surveillance

    A review study on the epidemiology of fungal infections in France opens new avenues for research to tackle these diseases more effectively.

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