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Article | 2018.01.30
Perilic project: Studying the protection of pertussis vaccination
A unique study on whooping cough (pertussis), in three regions of the world, estimates the duration of protection from the various vaccinations against pertussis.
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News | 2018.01.30
Quiescent cells also mutate!
For almost a hundred years, geneticists have believed that the more a cell divides the more mutations it acquires. However, research by scientists at the Institut Pasteur shows that quiescent cells, which do not divide, also acquire a particular type of mutation – deletions (mutations through loss of nucleobases).Geneticists study heredity or the transmission of characters between generations....
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News | 2018.02.14
High incidence of neonatal infections in Madagascar
Every year in the world, 4 million children die before the age of one, mainly in resource-limited countries, one-third of them due to a severe infection. The neonatal period alone (first month of life) accounts for one third of deaths before the age of one. This situation is all the more complex in a context of ever-increasing emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. In 2012, the Institut...
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Document de presse | 2018.02.08
Anne Dejean-Assémat receives the Sjöberg Prize 2018
Professor Anne Dejean-Assémat, Head of the Nuclear Organization and Oncogenesis Unit at the Institut Pasteur and Inserm, has recently been awarded the Sjöberg Prize 2018, along with Professors Hugues de Thé from the Collège de France and Zhu Chen from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. This prize, awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, was set up in 2016 to recognize scientists...
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News | 2018.02.09
Christine Petit receives the ARO Award of Merit for her work to elucidate the mechanisms of hearing and deafness
This year, the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO) chose to recognize the research of Prof. Christine Petit by selecting her as the recipient of its highly prestigious Award of Merit. This international prize, set up in 1978, is awarded to those who have made an outstanding scientific and/or medical contribution in the field of hearing. Prof. Christine Petit, Head of Genetics...
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Document de presse | 2018.02.19
New neurons in the adult brain are involved in sensory learning
Although we have known for several years that the adult brain can produce new neurons, many questions about the properties conferred by these adult-born neurons were left unanswered. What advantages could they offer that could not be offered by the neurons generated shortly after birth? Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS have demonstrated that the new neurons produced in adults...
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Document de presse | 2018.02.21
Genetics makes Asians and Europeans susceptible to severe dengue
As globalization and climate change spread tropical infectious diseases around the globe, not all populations have the same degree of susceptibility. Researchers from the Institut Pasteur, CNRS and the Institute for Research and Innovation in Health-University of Porto (i3S) identified gene variants common in people of Asian and European ancestry, making them more prone than those of African...
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News | 2018.02.28
The factors that most affect our immune system
Why do we respond differently to infections or vaccines? Why are some people allergic to pollen? These are still unanswered questions in biological and medical science. The Milieu Intérieur Laboratory of Excellence coordinated at the Institut Pasteur by CNRS research director, Dr. Lluis Quintana-Murci, has recently described immune variation on a large scale within the French population. To...
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Article | 2018.03.06
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News | 2018.03.06
A Global mapping of mosquitoes vectors of Zika virus
In 2013, the Zika virus, an arbovirus transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, emerged in the Pacific Islands. In 2015, the first cases of infection are detected in northwestern Brazil. In just a few months, the virus is spreading throughout the country and in the tropical zone of Latin America, causing an unprecedented epidemic and associated with a large number of neurological disorders (Guillain-Barré...
