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News | 2018.09.14
Omics: Biology in the digital age at the Institut Pasteur
On September 13, 2018, the Institut Pasteur inaugurated its "Omics" buildings, which will serve to explore the myriad possibilities offered by the development of computational biology. The buildings will house scientists from a wide range of disciplines together with state-of-the-art technologies.The OMICS Center inauguration ceremony was attended by Christian Vigouroux and Stewart Cole,...
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News | 2018.09.26
2016 yellow fever outbreak in Brazil: tiger mosquitoes are also capable of transmitting the virus
Since December 2016, Brazil has been grappling with its worst yellow fever outbreak for several decades. To date, there have been 2,043 human cases including 676 fatalities, mainly occurring in ten Brazilian states including Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. These two states, the most heavily populated in Brazil, had been free of yellow fever for nearly 70 years. Research by scientists at the...
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News | 2018.10.17
Claude Flamand : predicting epidemics with satellite images
Settled in Cayenne for 11 years, Claude Flamand heads the Epidemiology Unit at the Institut Pasteur de la Guyane. Since 2014, this epidemiologist and biostatistician works with the French National Centre for Space Studies to predict dengue epidemics in time and space thanks to satellite imaging."Car, helicopter, canoe, we used every possible means to reach people everywhere in French Guiana",...
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Document de presse | 2018.10.04
Smoking cessation: a genetic mutation involved in relapse
Why is it so difficult to stop smoking? Why do some people relapse months after giving up? Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS, in collaboration with Sorbonne University and Inserm, have demonstrated that a genetic mutation already known to be involved in sensitivity to nicotine also plays a role in relapse behavior after cessation in rats. The findings were published in the journal...
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News | 2018.10.04
Multicentric research has identify Leptospira bacteria circulating in Uruguay
In a pioneering work, a multidisciplinary team of researchers from “Miguel C. Rubino” Lab at the Ministry of Livestock (MGAP), the National Agricultural Research Institute (INIA), the state university (Udelar) the Institut Pasteur in Montevideo and the Institut Pasteur (Paris) have identified for the first time the pathogenic strains of the Leptospira bacteria that circulate in Uruguay infecting...
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News | 2018.10.05
Ten years ago, Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier won the Nobel Prize in Medicine
On October 6, 2008, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Professors Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier for their identification of the retrovirus responsible for AIDS at the Institut Pasteur in 1983. Françoise Barré-Sinoussi receiving her Nobel Prize in 2008. Copyright: Nobel Foundation, Photo Hans Mehlin. Twenty-five years after the AIDS virus was first isolated, this...
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News | 2018.10.18
Liver cancer: the Peruvian exception
Scientists and physicians are attempting to elucidate the mechanisms of an atypical form of liver cancer in Peru that is mainly affecting young people. Their research has revealed previously unknown risk factors.Why are young Peruvians developing liver cancer? The highly unusual forms of the disease are attracting the attention of scientists and healthcare workers. Their goal is to prevent,...
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News | 2018.10.22
Deep-learning to improve super-resolution microscopy methods
Earlier this year, scientists from the Institut Pasteur have developed a method for increasing the spatio-temporal resolution in optical microscopy. Christophe Zimmer, author of this discovery, explains this method called ANNA-PALM, rely on recent developments in artificial intelligence and especially in deep learning. Christophe Zimmer, a researcher at the Institut Pasteur, explains how he...
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News | 2018.10.23
The Institut Pasteur de Guinée opens its first laboratory in Conakry
The first laboratory at the Institut Pasteur de Guinée was officially opened on October 22, 2018. Based at Gamal Abdel Nasser University of Conakry, the Pasteur Laboratory will mainly focus on training, diagnostics and research.With the support of the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs and the Expertise France agency, in connection with the LAB-NET program1 a 230m2 space generously...
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News | 2018.10.30
Zika virus in the Pacific : the influence of the geographical context on an outbreak’s emergence
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a flavivirus transmitted to humans by Aedes mosquitoes. ZIKV is divided into two phylogenetic lineages: African and Asian. In New Caledonia, the complex interactions between humans, mosquitoes and the virus led to a important outbreak in 2014.In 2013, the Zika virus emerged in French Polynesia and more than 1,500 cases were identified the following year in New Caledonia....
