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News | 2014.06.25
Africa Regional Meeting of the Institut Pasteur International Network
The Africa regional meeting of the Institut Pasteur International Network was organized in the Institut by Dakar (Senegal) from June 18th to June 19th followed by a Scientific Day of the African Institutes June 20th, 2014. This regional meeting and the scientific Day of Instituts Pasteur in the Africa region was an opportunity to discuss new research strategies in the Institutes of the Network,...
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News | 2014.06.11
Mild hearing impairment may indicate greater underlying problems
Scientists identified mice models that mimic high-frequency hearing impairment in humans. Their work sheds light on the anomalies causing the hearing impairment and could explain the pronounced masking effect experienced by some hearing-impaired individuals when trying to discriminate high-frequency sounds in noisy environments. The scientists suggest that more substantial auditory assessments...
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News | 2014.06.28
EBOLA: Institut Pasteur in the front line against Ebola outbreak
An international team of scientists from Institut Pasteur Paris and Dakar are on the front of the outbreak in Guinea. The Institut Pasteur confirmed the outbreak on March 21, 2014. Since the outbreak is still continuing, scientists and materials have been sent from Institut Pasteur Paris and Dakar to Guinea. Experts from Institut Pasteur Dakar are investigating new cases...
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News | 2014.06.30
Assessing the effectiveness of anti-malaria campaigns
The fight against malaria has been declared a Millennium Development Goal by the World Health Organization, and as such receives significant worldwide funding. Despite this fact, the public health agencies that manage this program lack the means to assess whether campaigns are effectively able to reduce or eliminate malaria within individual countries.
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News | 2014.06.30
The Institut Pasteur signs Memorandum of Understanding with the Institut of Liver and Biliary Sciences in India
The Institut Pasteur, the Institute of Liver & Biliary Sciences (ILBS) and the Government of National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) which aims to promote the implementation and execution of collaborative research projects and organize joint scientific shops at bilateral or multilateral level. Exchange of scientists, PhD and MDPhD will be...
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News | 2014.06.22
Scientists discover a novel mechanism in the development of pre-eclampsia
No treatment currently exists for pre-eclampsia, a gestational disorder which affects over 8 million pregnant women worldwide and can cause premature delivery or death of the mother or the fetus.
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News | 2014.07.18
The Institut Pasteur expresses its deep sadness after the crash of the MH17 flight
The Institut Pasteur, all the scientists and administrative staff, wish to express their deep sadness after the crash of the MH17 flight. This tragedy is the result of stupidity and barbary. We think of all those people who died so tragically and their families. Also, we will remember all our colleagues who have dedicated their lives to the fight against HIV. We know how this will affect the...
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News | 2014.07.21
TB transmission: Why tubercle bacilli of animal origin don't spread within human populations
Researchers examined the mechanisms involved in tuberculosis (TB) transmission to explain why tubercle bacilli of animal origin don't spread within human populations. Their work opens up new possibilities for understanding the functions and mechanisms involved in TB transmission in humans and could eventually lead to therapeutic solutions for preventing the spread of this infectious agent....
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News | 2014.07.29
Institut Pasteur and Institut Pasteur of Dakar on the front line against the Ebola crisis in West Africa
Since the beginning of the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, several scientists from the Institut Pasteur, as part of their mandate as a WHO Collaborating Centre on arboviruses and viral hemorrhagic fevers, have been offering their support to international aid plan implemented in collaboration with the Guinean Ministry of Health.
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News | 2014.08.03
The emergence of neonatal group B streptococcal infections explained
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS have recently revealed the cause behind the emergence in the 1960s of neonatal infections due to group B streptococcus. These findings prove that the sudden emergence of infections caused by this bacterium resulted from the widespread use of an antibiotic, tetracycline, from the 1950s onwards.
