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Document de presse | 2025.07.25
A human protein inherited from bacteria reveals an overlooked aspect of human immunity
What if the study of bacteria could illuminate our understanding of human immunity? In recent years, scientists have been exploring unexpected links between human proteins involved in the body’s defense mechanisms and certain bacterial immune proteins. Focusing on conserved immune domains originating from bacteria, termed “ancestral immune”, a team of researchers from Institut Curie, Institut...
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Article | 2017.01.04
4-year Research Group within the Pasteur Network
To encourage the development of ambitious research programmes, and to strengthen scientific leadership skills of promising researchers across the network, the Pasteur Network supports the creation of 4-year Research Groups in these institutes with a group-leader career development opportunity of up to €400,000.
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Article | 2023.04.04
4-year Research Group - Call for nomination at the Pasteur Fiocruz Center
A 4-year Group leaders’ position is open at the Pasteur Fiocruz Center on Immunology and Immunotherapy
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Vidéo | 2025.07.28
Science for everyone
“I sometimes dream of a world where we no longer say ‘female scientist’... but simply ‘scientist’.” At the 2025 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards ceremony, Yasmine Belkaid, Director General of the Institut Pasteur, spoke with strength and emotion.A powerful message reminding us that science needs all voices, all backgrounds, and all experiences.A call to defend equality, research, and...
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Document de presse | 2025.07.29
Long COVID: SARS-CoV-2 persists in the brainstem in the long term and deregulates neuronal activity
Symptoms can persist in some SARS-CoV-2 patients several months after infection. Scientists at the Institut Pasteur have demonstrated in an animal model that SARS-CoV-2 infects the brain and persists in the brainstem for up to 80 days after the acute infection phase. The presence of the virus is linked to symptoms of depression, impaired memory, and anxiety. Genes associated with neuronal...
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News | 2025.07.30
Official Signing of the Institut Pasteur – ALFI Partnership to Expand Housing Opportunities for Young Scientists
On Tuesday, July 22, 2025, the Institut Pasteur and the association ALFI (Association for Housing Families and Individuals) officially signed a strategic partnership aimed at expanding access to affordable housing for young scientists. The signing ceremony, held in the presence of François Romaneix, Executive Vice-President of the Institut Pasteur, and Guillaume Brugidou, General Delegate of ALFI...
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Vidéo | 2025.08.05
Long Covid: the brain puzzle
What if Covid could remain hidden... in our brains?This is what Anthony Coleon and his team at the Lyssavirus, Epidemiology and Neuropathology Unit at the Pasteur Institute have revealed: SARS-CoV-2 can persist for up to 80 days after infection... in the brain stem.As a result, the virus disrupts the activity of genes linked to dopamine, a neurotransmitter essential for memory and emotions.This...
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Portrait | 2025.05.22
Guilherme Dias de Melo, exploring the mysteries of long COVID
The Brazilian-born scientist has devoted his career to exploring the links between viral infections and the brain. He specializes in neurotropic viruses and is working to elucidate the infectious mechanisms underpinning the SARS-CoV-2 and rabies viruses. With a transcontinental background, a passion for science and a coherent approach to research challenges, Guilherme Dias de Melo is driven by an...
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Vidéo | 2025.08.08
Dengue fever at the helm
Does dengue fever hijack mosquitoes' brains?!Louis Lambrecht and his team, including Félix Hol, have discovered that infected mosquitoes take smaller blood meals...As a result, they bite more often.So they infect more people. An extremely clever... and scary viral strategy.(video in french, English subtitles available)
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News | 2025.07.10
Summer 2025: early emergence of chikungunya in mainland France
An unprecedented situation has arisen this summer, with the first locally acquired cases of chikungunya detected as early as June, notably affecting the Grand Est region for the very first time. Chikungunya is a viral disease mainly transmitted to humans by bites from mosquitoes of the Aedes genus. It is characterized by symptoms such as fever and intense joint pain. In the wake of severe...
