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News | 2023.06.19
Gene therapies: new hopes for curing deafness
Hearing impairment affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Researchers at the Hearing Institute have mapped at the single cell level the spatio-temporal expression of genes within the sensory organ of hearing, the cochlea, paving the way for the development of gene therapy treatments for hereditary forms of deafness.
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News | 2023.05.27
Immune memory: the best defense against bladder infections
Researchers at the Institut Pasteur and the Institut Cochin have demonstrated the presence of an immune memory in certain white blood cells that remain in the bladder. Although highly effective, this immune memory becomes much less so following the administration of antibiotics. This is an important discovery, as urinary tract infections continue to pose a major health problem.
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News | 2023.05.12
A new approach to developing mouse 'embryos' in vitro
The study of embryonic development is a complex and tightly regulated field. By influencing a process that regulates gene expression, researchers at the Institut Pasteur have succeeded in recreating in vitro mouse cell clusters that mimic in some respects the structure of real embryos. By avoiding the manipulation of embryos, these approaches pave the way for applications such as the study of...
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News | 2023.05.04
Biofilms formed by bacteria can promote the emergence of antibiotic resistance
Biofilms are biological structures that help bacteria survive in their environment. Researchers at the Institut Pasteur have shown that biofilms promote the emergence of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli bacteria exposed to antibiotics.
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News | 2023.04.26
Institut Curie - Institut Pasteur partnership: two joint projects to promote innovation and advancement of knowledge
Implementing their collaborative research strategy, Institut Curie and Institut Pasteur have raised the impressive amount of €600,000 to finance two research projects involving two teams from each organization. The MUCTOLIN project, looking at the role of tolerance induced by mucus during Listeria infection, and the TicTac project, which aims to study the effects of geometry on the healthy or...
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News | 2023.04.03
Brain Awareness Week: the amazing learning abilities of babies
Could there have been any doubt that babies can recognize their mother even before they are born, that they learn to speak based on the sound of the voice and express an unquenchable curiosity for faces? Four scientists spoke at the conference "What do babies think about?" organized at the Institut Pasteur for Brain Awareness Week 2023. Their presentations taught us more about the surprising...
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News | 2023.03.30
Using evolutionary biology to identify the origin of disease outbreaks
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur have developed an approach inspired by evolutionary biology for more precise identification of the starting point of potential bacterial disease outbreaks.
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News | 2022.12.12
A Graduate School for emerging infectious diseases
The "Emerging Infectious Diseases 1H-EID" project has received €5.9 million in funding over a five-year period. This money will be used to set up a Graduate School offering a multidisciplinary study program in the field of emerging infectious diseases. The aim is to train up future players in research and healthcare and decision-makers of tomorrow so as to better anticipate future disease...
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News | 2023.03.06
How the parasites that cause leishmaniasis adapt to their vector hosts
In a study published on March 15, scientists demonstrate how the parasites responsible for leishmaniasis adapt to the insect they infect.
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News | 2023.01.31
Pasteur and Carlsberg: a long history of science and friendship
When Louis Pasteur filed a patent for a beer production process, the Carlsberg brewery was the first to use it in Denmark. Jacob Christian Jacobsen, founder of Carlsberg, developed a deep respect for Pasteur. Their mutual esteem and sincere friendship stood the test of time. A symbol of their relationship is the famous painting by Léon Bonnat, produced in 1886 at the request of J.C. Jacobsen and...
