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News | 2023.04.03
Scientific outreach: exploring bacterial diversity... with art
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur have worked in collaboration with high school students from Bondy to showcase biodiversity in an original artistic format. This Bio-Art project is the result of a scientific outreach campaign in partnership with the Institut Pasteur.
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Document de presse | 2026.01.30
Neonatal sepsis: using vaginal microbiota to improve predictions
Teams from the Paris Public Hospital Network (AP-HP), Université Paris Cité, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Inserm, the Institut Pasteur and FHU Prem'IMPACT, coordinated by Professor Laurent Mandelbrot (Université Paris Cité), Head of the Gynecology and Obstetrics Department at Louis Mourier Hospital (AP-HP), conducted a study to assess whether analyzing bacteria from vaginal swab samples taken...
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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 | 2024.02.07
Revealed: molecular motors provide energy to "feed" bacteria
Researchers at the CNRS and the Institut Pasteur have discovered the mechanism by which nutrients enter a bacterium. Thanks to cutting-edge technologies, they have completed the puzzle of a sequence of events in the bacterial envelope. They deciphered the workings of a "molecular motor" that brings nutrients into bacteria, and explain how energy circulates to bring them in. The proof is in the...
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Article | 2025.01.20
Immunology
The complexity of the immune system is a never-ending source of fascination for scientists. The Department of Immunology is composed of teams that investigate the body's natural system of protection against disease.
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News | 2022.11.14
Monkeypox: a detailed profile of the disease
Physicians and scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the Pasteur Network and ANRS | Emerging Infectious Diseases have conducted a review of the medical and scientific literature about monkeypox. The review, which paints a complete picture of the disease, was published in the New England Journal of Medicine on October 26, 2022. What are the signs of this disease? Where does it come from? How is it...
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News | 2018.05.22
Tiger mosquitoes: heightened surveillance in France, from May to November 2018
On Monday April 30, 2018, the French Ministry of Health announced that it was stepping up surveillance of the tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, which is now present in 42 French départements – twice as many as two years ago. But just how dangerous is this mosquito, vector of diseases such as dengue, chikungunya or zika?The tiger mosquito ("Who is this this mosquito?" in French) is...
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Report | 2018.12.19
The Research Journal: 2018's most read articles!
The Research’s Journal, for its second year, offers a return on the most read articles in 2018. An exceptional year, marked by the milestone of the 130 year anniversary of the inauguration of the Institut Pasteur (November 14th, 1888) which has been rich in scientific discoveries for the benefit of everyone’s health.
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News | 2022.11.10
ERC grants: new funding awarded in October 2022
Since they were launched in 2007, European Research Council (ERC) grants have become a mark of scientific excellence. Three new ERC Synergy Grants have recently been awarded for international projects involving scientists working on the Institut Pasteur campus.
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Article | 2017.03.03
PCC
General informationsIn ordering a strain from the PCC, the customer implicitly agrees not to resell the strain, and to quote the Collection acronym (PCC) and full strain number (e.g. 6301) in any published communication involving that strain.Strains obtained from the PCC should not be donated to other laboratories or Culture Collections. This precaution is necessary to protect the reputation of...
