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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...
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News | 2015.12.08
Publication of the results of the first case of prolonged remission (12 years) in an HIV-infected child
Last July has been a researcher presented the case of a young woman who was HIV-infected at birth via mother-to-child transmission and spent 12 years in virological remission, despite not having taken any antiretroviral therapy. This first case of long-term remission in a child, monitored in the French ANRS pediatric cohort, is described in an article published on December 9, in The Lancet...
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News | 2015.12.14
Sepsis: cell therapy to repair muscle long-term impairment
Scientists have recently published a paper in which they reveal mayor players in the severe muscle damage caused by sepsis, or septicemia, which explains why many patients suffer debilitating muscle impairment long-term after recovery. They propose a therapeutic approach based on mesenchymal stem cell transplantation, which has produced encouraging results and has proved successful in restoring...
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News | 2015.12.20
The mechanism of an AIDS vaccine candidate filmed in vivo
Using innovative technology, scientists from the Institut Pasteur and Inserm have filmed in vivo the process by which an AIDS vaccine candidate, developed by the French Vaccine Research Institute and the ANRS, triggers the immune response. This previously unseen footage clearly shows how the vaccine recruits the immune cells needed to destroy infected cells. These results shed new light on the...
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News | 2015.12.17
The Institut Pasteur in French Guiana detects the first case of Zika virus in French Guiana.
The virology laboratory of the Institut Pasteur in French Guiana (National Reference Centre for arboviruses, associated laboratory for the Antilles and French Guiana) has just confirmed the first case of Zika virus in Guiana. To date, no local transmission has been identified. This case was imported from the neighboring Surinam where the Institut Pasteur in French Guiana virology laboratory...
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News | 2015.12.29
The Institut Pasteur in Bangui confirms cases of monkeypox virus infection in Central African Republic
The Institut Pasteur in Bangui confirmed cases of monkeypox virus infection in Bangassou about 800 km from Bangui capital city of the Central African Republic. A team from Doctors without Borders Belgium located in this area at the border of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has collected samples from two children of the same family who presented with rashes (maculopapular) after consuming...
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News | 2014.10.27
Inauguration of the «Amazonian Vectopole, Émile Abonnenc " of the Institut Pasteur in French-Guiana by Ms. Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research
On October 18th, 2014 the Institut Pasteur in French Guiana received Mrs. Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, Minister of National Education, Higher Education and Research. Surrounded by Mr. Eric Spitz, Prefect of French Guiana, Mr. Rodolphe Alexandre, President of the Regional Council of French Guiana, Mr. Bernard Chemoul, Director of the Guiana Space Center and Dr. Mirdad Kazanji, Director of...
