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News | 2018.09.07
Lyme disease: a study on the speed of transmission by infected ticks
Lyme borreliosis is a disease caused by bacteria of the genus Borrelia that are transmitted by a bite from a tick of the genus Ixodes. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur used mice to study the transmission of bacteria by ticks infected with various European and North American species of Borrelia. They found evidence of rapid bacterial transmission following a bite, with infection occurring...
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Report | 2018.09.13
How big data is revolutionizing health research
Identifying risk factors for disease, helping diagnose cancer, guiding therapeutic choices and monitoring the efficacy of treatment, facilitating surveillance of pathogens – in a huge number of fields, technological progress is now providing biomedical research with vast reams of information (or "big data") about the diseases under study, representing an extraordinary source of new knowledge and...
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News | 2018.09.17
Hepatitis B: to better identify patients eligible for treatment in Africa
Today, hepatitis B can be efficiently treated but the diagnosis tools to assess treatment eligibility are complex and their availability is scarce in Africa. To identify these patients, researchers from the Institut Pasteur in Paris and the Institut Pasteur de Dakar have developed a simple and efficient method that could easily be implemented in resource-limited countries.In 2016, WHO set up...
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Document de presse | 2018.09.13
With its new "Omics" buildings, the Institut Pasteur continues its digital revolution
The new "Omics" buildings, inaugurated today at the Institut Pasteur, will house outstanding multidisciplinary research teams and state-of-the-art technologies to explore the myriad possibilities offered by the development of computational biology, with the aim of strengthening our ability to tackle the scientific and health challenges of the 21st century. This center of expertise, unique in...
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News | 2018.09.12
A debate on sepsis at the Institut Pasteur
On September 12, the Institut Pasteur hosted a debate entitled "Sepsis – uniting to tackle a little-known threat", under the aegis of the French Ministry for Solidarity and Health. Sepsis is the term used internationally to describe a systemic inflammatory response to severe infection. As well as raising awareness of this unknown disease, the debate highlighted the measures taken by the French...
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News | 2018.09.21
DIVA: Virtual reality for complex image analysis
The Decision and Bayesian Computation research team, led by Jean-Baptiste Masson at the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with the observation and control laboratory of the cellular organization, at the Institut Curie, has developed a new software platform called DIVA: Data Integration and Visualization in Augmented and Virtual Environments.Mohamed El Beheiry, researcher at the Institut Pasteur...
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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...
