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News | 2018.05.23
Ebola: the answers to your questions in our disease sheet
On May 8, 2018, the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo declared that the Bikoro health zone, in Equateur province, was the scene of an Ebola outbreak. The "Ebola" disease sheet of the Institut Pasteur has just been updated.This new epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a major risk for the local population. This news is an opportunity to recall that...
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News | 2018.05.25
Regulation of muscle stem cells in their niche: juggling external and internal cues
Little information is available on how stem cells acquire their special properties. A team from the Institut Pasteur has described a signalling pathway (Notch/COLV/CALCR) that proposes a new view on how muscle stem cells are retained in their local microenvironment (niche).Stem cells play critical roles during growth, regeneration and ageing. Although they possess special features that allow them...
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Report | 2018.05.25
From Molecular Biology to Stem Cells
May 1968… While students took to the streets of Paris, Jacques Monod and François Jacob were getting ready for what would prove to be a decisive turning point for the Institut Pasteur: the opening of a new department dedicated to molecular biology—in other words the study of the molecular mechanisms governing cell behavior. The venture, which included plans for purpose-built premises, had...
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News | 2018.05.29
The Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle-Calédonie describes 12 new species of leptospires and pays tribute to Pasteurians
Environmental bacterial disease, leptospirosis causes nearly 1 million clinical infections per year. The Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle-Calédonie has been interested for many years with the disease whose incidence is particularly high in Oceania. Researchers from the Leptospirosis Research and Expertise Unit, led by Cyrille Goarant, recently isolated 12 new species of the genus Leptospira.In an...
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News | 2018.05.28
Artificial intelligence speeds up high-resolution microscopy
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur have developed a method for increasing the spatio-temporal resolution in optical microscopy. This method, called ANNA-PALM, is based on recent developments in artificial intelligence and, more specifically, in much-talked-about deep learning. This article explores the method."Traditional optical microscopes can be used to distinguish structures in the range of...
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News | 2018.05.28
Artificial intelligence: deep learning is blazing ahead
Christophe Zimmer, Head of the Imaging and Modeling Unit at the Institut Pasteur, looks at artificial neural networks, algorithms with learning ability (deep learning), which fuel the renewed interest in artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence will play a key role in personalized medicine.Christophe ZimmerHead of the Imaging and Modeling Unit at the Institut Pasteur What are...
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News | 2018.05.31
Elliot Rakotomanana, an anthropologist against malnutrition in Madagascar
With a master’s-level degree in the biochemistry of nutrition, Elliot Rakotomanana is currently pursuing his studies in the social anthropology of health. As a researcher at the Institut Pasteur in Madagascar, this 37-year-old is participating in the AFRIBIOTA research program, an innovative multidisciplinary project that seeks better understanding of chronic childhood malnutrition and...
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Document de presse | 2018.06.01
Announcement of the 2018 ALBERT EINSTEIN World Award of Science
Prof. Jean-Pierre Changeux, Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at the Institut Pasteur and Collège de France, where he was Chair of Cellular Communications from 1976 to 2006, and at the International Faculty, Kavli Institute for Brain & Mind, University of California (San Diego), has been selected as the winner of the 2018 ALBERT EINSTEIN World Award of Science. The prize is awarded in...
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Document de presse | 2018.06.13
Yellow fever: a new method for testing vaccine safety
Development of a cellular test to verify the safety of live vaccines, such as the yellow fever vaccine, without the need to use animal testing.Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS and Sanofi Pasteur have recently developed a novel alternative method to animal testing that can be used to verify the safety of vaccines such as the yellow fever vaccine. This original approach is based on...
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News | 2018.06.01
Christine Petit and her discoveries concerning early-onset hearing loss
Christine Petit, Professor at the Institut Pasteur and Professor at the Collège de France, received the 2018 Kavli Prize for Neuroscience from the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, for her pioneering work on the molecular and neural mechanisms of hearing. During her career, her scientific discoveries have earned her a great many international awards. As the Institut Pasteur is celebrating...
