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News | 2015.05.21
EBOV sequences from Guinea
The Institut Pasteur and the Institut Pasteur International network are releasing EBOV sequences to support the public health response as well as the development and evaluation of EVD vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics. Please feel free to download, use, and analyze this data.
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News | 2015.05.24
Dogma challenged: the genetic determination of testis or ovary is conserved through evolution
In animals, sexual reproduction is almost universal but the mechanisms that determine the choice between forming a testis or ovary are highly diverse. Researchers from the Institut Pasteur and the University of Minnesota have recently proven that the genetic determination of testis or ovary has been conserved through evolution, thanks to a study of the gene DMRT1.
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News | 2015.05.25
The Minister of health of Mexico visited the Institut Pasteur
Prof. Christian Bréchot welcomed Ms. Mercedes Juan López, Mexico’s Minister of health, to the Pasteur Institute on Thursday, May 21st. They discussed the strengthening of our contacts and the renewal of partnership agreements which will be signed in July of this year during the visit of the Mexican President in Paris. At the delegation request they visited the genomic platform of the...
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News | 2015.05.25
Kurma Partners announces the launch of its third fund Kurma Diagnostics (KDx)
The European Investment Fund (EIF), Fonds National d’Amorçage (FNA) managed by Bpifrance as part of the French government’s Investments for the future (“Investissements d’Avenir”) program, Institut Pasteur, and BNP Paribas are participating in the first closing (€33M). Kurma Diagnostics: the first Venture Capital fund dedicated to financing early-stage European...
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News | 2015.05.27
Institut Pasteur's involvement in the fight against Ebola
The Institut Pasteur and the Institut Pasteur International Network are assisting the international aid effort by offering diagnostic support and epidemiological surveillance in collaboration with the Guinean Ministry of Health. On the occasion of the international congress " Targeting Ebola 2015 ", held at the Institut Pasteur in Paris on May 28 and 29, 2015, find all the information...
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News | 2015.06.03
Regional Europe Meeting of the Institut Pasteur International Network in Lille
May 27 to 28, 2015 The Regional Europe Meeting was hosted in Lille, France, from May 27 to 28, 2015 with representatives of the European Commission. The meeting brought together directors and scientists from 7 other RIIP establishments in Belgium, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Romania, Russia and Paris, France. Antibiotic resistance, re-emerging diseases, infection and cancer, health and environment...
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News | 2015.06.07
The native capsid of a retrovirus is observed for the first time ever at the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo
Researchers from the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, in collaboration with the Uruguayan Medical School, obtained for the first time ever high-resolution images of the native capsid protein of the Bovine Leukemia Virus (BLV). These observations represent a major progress in understanding retrovirus biology, opening new avenues towards the development of antiretroviral therapies.
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News | 2015.06.08
The Institut Pasteur signs a cooperation agreement with Fiocruz and the University of São Paulo
June 8th, 2015 The Institut Pasteur, its historical partner in Brazil, Fiocruz and the University of São Paulo, the largest in the Latin American continent, have signed in Rio de Janeiro a tripartite cooperation agreement on 8th June, 2015. This agreement, between these three actors in Research and International Public Health, defines the main directions of scientific cooperation and prefigures...
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News | 2015.06.15
Restoring natural immunity against cancers
Scientists have successfully increased the infiltration of immune cells into tumors, thus inducing the immune system to block tumor growth. They show that, in combination with existing immunotherapies, this process efficiently destroys cancer cells.
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News | 2015.06.23
Three Ebola virus variants identified in Guinea
Sequencing the genome of Ebola virus strains circulating in Guinea has allowed scientists at the Institut Pasteur in Dakar and in Paris, the CNRS and the University of Sydney to retrace the spread of the virus and monitor its evolution in the country where the outbreak started. This research reveals the co-circulation in Guinea, particularly in the urban regions of the capital and neighboring...
