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News | 2015.10.08
Pasteur.fr Honors Françoise Barré-Sinoussi
Support the October 13 tribute to Françoise Barré Sinoussi by discovering previously unreleased content about this researcher on pasteur.fr today. You will find an exclusive interview, her biography, a photo collection depicting many moments of sharing and generosity, and several other links demonstrating her unique career.
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News | 2015.10.11
October 14-16: Annual Symposium of the Institut Pasteur International Network
The Scientific Symposium of the Institut Pasteur International Network, held from October 14 to 16, 2015 at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, will this year be based on the theme "Global Health and One Health", looking at the need for a global approach to health research.
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News | 2015.10.27
The Institut Pasteur and Chan Soon-Shiong Institute for Molecular Medicine Partner to Form Global Genomics Center
The Chan Soon-Shiong Institute for Molecular Medicine (CSSIOMM) and the Institut Pasteur today announced a partnership to establish The Pasteur Global Health Genomics Center (PGHGC). The aim of the PGHGC is to advance genomic research utilizing next-generation patient information systems needed to support the acquisition and usage of high-quality sequencing data.
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News | 2015.10.28
Hunting the Nipah virus at the Institut Pasteur in Cambodia
As part of a vast program to combat infectious encephalitis in South-East Asia, scientists at the Institut Pasteur in Cambodia are focusing their research on the bats that carry the Nipah virus, an emerging infectious agent that causes the disease. Their aim is to prevent or limit a possible future epidemic in Cambodia.
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News | 2015.10.29
Visit to the Institut Pasteur of Mr José Mujica, former President of Uruguay
On October 27th, 2015 the Institut Pasteur was pleased to welcome Mr José Mujica, who was the 40th President of Uruguay between 2010 and 2015, now Senator. He was accompanied by Mrs Lucia Topolansky, Senator, and Ricardo Ehrlich, former Minister of Education and Culture in Uruguay and current Chairman of the Board from the Institut Pasteur in Montevideo. When visiting the Alzari Pedro'...
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News | 2015.11.03
4th Edition of the Sanofi - Institut Pasteur Awards
Sanofi and the Institut Pasteur have attributed today the Sanofi - Institut Pasteur Awards for the fourth year in a row. Four major researchers with international recognition have been rewarded for their works in two major fields for global health: tropical and neglected diseases and immunology.
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News | 2015.11.04
Noise-induced hearing loss – genetic cause and mechanism discovered
Scientists have recently discovered the function of pejvakin, a molecule that plays a vital role in the hearing system. The absence of this molecule appears to be responsible for noise-induced hearing loss, one of the most common causes of deafness.
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News | 2015.11.09
Dengue: asymptomatic people transmit the virus to mosquitoes
Scientists at the Institut Pasteur in Cambodia, the Institut Pasteur in Paris and the CNRS provided proof that people infected by dengue virus but showing no clinical symptoms can actually infect mosquitoes that bite them. It appears that these asymptomatic people – who, together with mildly symptomatic patients, represent three-quarters of all dengue infections – could be involved in...
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News | 2015.11.29
Our epigenome is influenced by our habitat and lifestyle
Research on the genomes of Pygmy hunter-gatherer populations and Bantu farmers in Central Africa, carried out by scientists from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS in cooperation with French and international teams, has shown for the first time that our habitat and lifestyle can have an impact on our epigenome – the entire system that controls the expression of our genes without affecting...
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News | 2015.11.29
Climate change & health: Christian Bréchot calls for more research in the international journal PKB
As the UN Conference on Climate change opens in Paris, Christian Bréchot, President of the Institut Pasteur contributes an article on the need for more research to better predict the impact of climate change on health in the COP21 special edition of the international journal Presidency Key Brief, PKB, a journal that is both anticipatory and reflective in regards to the challenges of...
