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Vidéo | 2025.11.03
Pregnancy: harmful additives
What an expectant mother eats can already influence her baby's microbiota.At the Institut Pasteur, Héloïse Rytter, a researcher in Benoît Chassaing's team (G5 Microbiota-Host Interactions), is interested in how certain food additives found in everyday products can alter a baby's immunity as early as during pregnancy.This study, of which Clara Delaroque is the lead author, highlights the close...
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Article | 2017.03.16
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Document de presse | 2025.10.31
A promising avenue for improving antibiotic efficacy
Aminoglycosides are antibiotics effective against a wide range of bacteria including Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus. Until now though, their mode of entry into bacteria has remained unknown. Scientists at the Institut Pasteur, working with teams from Inserm, the CNRS and Université Paris Cité, have recently demonstrated that aminoglycosides enter bacteria by...
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Page avancée | 2025.03.11
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News | 2025.11.06
Ecology and health – phages interact with many bacteria in ecosystems
Phages (bacteriophages), viruses that infect bacteria, are the most abundant genetic entities in our environment. A study published in Nature Microbiology challenges the common preconception that they only infect a limited number of hosts: a significant proportion of phages can interact with several bacterial species (5 to 10%).
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Page avancée | 2016.09.21
Education center
The Institut Pasteur Education Center offers outstanding training in life sciences and public health, combining theory and practice. At the heart of our pedagogy is hands-on experimentation, conducted in state-of-the-art facilities with specialized staff dedicated to the learning of scientific practices.More than 40 Pasteur Courses, taught by renowned researchers in an inclusive and...
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Vidéo | 2025.11.12
Your first ancestor
Invisible to the naked eye... and yet, this tiny organism is your closest cousin!Choanoflagellates are marine microorganisms that often live alone... but sometimes in colonies. These simple groupings may well have inspired the birth of the first multicellular beings.Thibaut Brunet, a researcher at the Institut Pasteur, explains how studying these organisms helps us understand our origins and the...
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Portrait | 2025.10.10
Sarah Merkling wants to "pasteurize" mosquitoes!
At the Institut Pasteur, Sarah Merkling's research focuses on a topic that is still largely unknown: interactions between mosquitoes and viruses. She boldly devises novel strategies based on state-of-the-art technologies. Her aim is to combat diseases like dengue and Zika, which are gaining ground and currently represent a threat for more than 50% of the world's population.
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Article | 2025.10.16
Training offer for PhD students
The Student Life Office manages the training offer for doctoral students of the Institut Pasteur. It organizes three trainings (the theoretical and hands-on workshops "Artificial Intelligence for Life Sciences", the "Bioinformatics and Data Science" program and the awareness training "Introduction to Open Science") and promotes all available training programs on campus of interest to doctoral...
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Vidéo | 2025.11.17
The cat parasite
Why should pregnant women avoid cats?In this video, Maëlwenn Hamon, a doctoral student at the Institut Pasteur working in Pauline Speder's team, explains how the Toxoplasma gondii parasite interacts with its hosts... and sometimes manipulates their behavior!In mice, it completely erases their fear of cats.In humans, the infection often goes unnoticed... except during pregnancy, when it can have...
