1. News | 2014.08.13

   Americas Regional Meeting of the Institut Pasteur International Network

   The Americas Meeting of the Institut Pasteur International Network which includes the Institut Pasteur in Guadeloupe, Guyana, Montevideo, the Institut Armand-Frappier and the Fiocruz, has been organized by the Centre INRS - Institut Armand-Frappier in Laval on the 1st of August, 2014 as part of the International Union of Microbiological Societies' Conference that took place in Montreal from...

2. News | 2014.08.21

   A new mechanism of gene regulation in Listeria

   How do bacteria perceive their environment? How do they find and detect nutrients? How do they eat? In an article published in the journal Science, researchers reveal a new system of gene regulation in Listeria monocytogenes, the bacteria in food and responsible for listeriosis.

3. News | 2014.08.27

   Potential strategies for limiting the hepatitis C epidemic in Egypt

   In the fight against hepatitis C, directing preventive and curative interventions towards sufferers of chronic diseases requiring regular medical care would be an effective means of reducing transmission of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in Egypt, and undoubtedly also in other countries with limited resources. This theory has arisen from a mathematical modeling study carried out as part of the ANRS...

4. News | 2014.09.01

   Mental states control the integration of new neurons in the adult brain

   Although it has been known for several years that the adult brain is capable of producing new neurons, how these neurons are integrated into existing, functional nerve circuits has hitherto remained a mystery. Scientists have just shown that new neurons set up a denser network of connections with the rest of the brain in contexts of active (as opposed to passive) motivation and learning.

5. News | 2014.08.31

   The Institut Pasteur steps up its action against Ebola

   Ever since the Ebola virus was identified in Guinea in March 2014, the designated WHO Collaborating Centers within the Institut Pasteur and Institut Pasteur International Network have been assisting the international aid initiative via diagnostic support and epidemiological surveillance. Now, faced with the seriousness and spread of the epidemic, the Institut Pasteur and Institut Pasteur...

6. News | 2014.09.09

   Highly regulated therapeutic target shows promise in the search for new antimalarial treatments

   Artemisinin is currently the most effective malarial treatment available. However, the recent emergence in South-East Asia of artemisinin-resistant parasites strengthens the urgent need to identify a new generation of antimalarial drugs. In this context, scientists have determined the three-dimensional structure of a promising new therapeutic target for malaria: SUB1.

7. News | 2014.09.16

   Agreement between The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development and the Institut Pasteur on the project: “Malnutrition and infections childhood in Africa”

     The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development (MAEDI) and the Institut Pasteur signed in July 2014 a grant agreement for the project: “Malnutrition and infections childhood in Africa” (MALINEA) in the framework of the Priority Solidarity Fund of the MAEDI. This project will be carried out through a partnership which brings together the know-how and the...

8. News | 2014.09.16

   Agreement between the University of Oxford and the Institut Pasteur

     The University of Oxford and the Institut Pasteur have signed in August 2014, an agreement for an international collaboration concerning the project “The Global Health Network”. The Global Health Network is a project that is based within the University of Oxford. It is a not-for-profit network which consists of individual health initiatives and corresponding online communities...

9. News | 2014.09.03

   Autism: SHANK gene may indicate the severity of the disorder

   Thanks to a large-scale study conducted on nearly 1,000 autistic patients, scientists succeeded in mapping the clinical incidence and impact of certain genetic mutations linked to the cognitive and intellectual abilities of the patients. Mutations affecting the SHANK3 gene were shown to coincide with the most severe cases of autism and are associated with 1 out of 50 children with autism and...

10. News | 2014.09.23

    MOU between Institut Pasteur and Fondation Mérieux in response to the Ebola virus and other hemorrhagic fever disease in Western Africa

    Fondation Mérieux and Institut Pasteur signed September 12, 2014 a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). This MOU serves to set forth the areas of collaboration in response to the Ebola virus disease (EVD) and other hemorrhagic fever diseases in Western Africa through three ways: Deployment of a new mobile laboratory, dedicated to detection and identification of infectious diseases caused by risk...

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