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Report | 2018.12.19
The Research Journal: 2018's most read articles!
The Research’s Journal, for its second year, offers a return on the most read articles in 2018. An exceptional year, marked by the milestone of the 130 year anniversary of the inauguration of the Institut Pasteur (November 14th, 1888) which has been rich in scientific discoveries for the benefit of everyone’s health.
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News | 2019.01.02
Food contamination in Cambodia contributing to the burden of antibiotic resistance
As antibiotics efficacy is under real threat, the World Health Organization warns that "one day no antibiotics may be left to treat common bacterial infections". Infections caused by bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics are more difficult and expensive to treat, with a higher risk of treatment failure. Antibiotic resistance is particularly problematic in lower and middle-income countries (...
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News | 2018.12.18
Five young researchers from the Institut Pasteur International Network, at the 2018 doctoral ceremony
On 7 December 2018, the Institut Pasteur organized a ceremony in honor of young graduates who completed their science thesis at the Institut Pasteur during the 2017-2018 academic year. This ceremony exists since 2013. Opened by an exceptional conference of Prof. Serge Haroche, Nobel Prize in Physics 2012, the 2018 edition honored, among these young Pasteurian scientists, five who completed their...
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Document de presse | 2018.12.20
AIDS – an approach for targeting HIV reservoirs
Current HIV treatments need to be taken for life by those infected as antiretroviral therapy is unable to eliminate viral reservoirs lurking in immune cells. Institut Pasteur scientists have identified the characteristics of CD4 T lymphocytes that are preferentially infected by the virus – it is their metabolic (or energy-producing) activity1 that enables the virus to multiply. Thanks to...
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News | 2018.12.18
The medical entomology course at the Institut Pasteur celebrates its 30th anniversary
Entomology, the study of insects, is a long-standing tradition at the Institut Pasteur. Institut Pasteur scientist Alphonse Laveran was the first to describe the malaria agent, Plasmodium, in 1880, while working in Constantine, Algeria. His work on protozoa earned him the Nobel Prize in 1907. In 1898, Paul-Louis Simond demonstrated that the bacterium responsible for plague, the Yersinia pestis...
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Document de presse | 2018.12.21
A novel antibiotic resistance mechanism
Bacteria make use of a number of natural resistance strategies to overcome antibiotics. And it seems that this bacterial toolbox may be much more varied than previously thought. Scientists at the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with Inserm, INRA, the CNRS and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, have recently revealed an entirely unknown resistance mechanism in Listeria monocytogenes...
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News | 2018.11.22
Autism: a virtual avatar to make precision medicine
Machine-learning, a method derived from artificial intelligence, is used at the Institut Pasteur (Paris) to study and understand the heterogeneity of autistic patients. It makes it possible to identify those among them who are the most similar in their profiles, to better take care of them - in the end - in line with their own profile.Guillaume Dumas, researcher in the Human Genetics and...
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Document de presse | 2019.01.03
Cholera outbreak in Yemen elucidated using genomics
The seventh cholera pandemic has been affecting world regions since 1961. In successive waves, Vibrio cholerae bacteria have been accompanying humans in their travels and migrations, sometimes triggering devastating outbreaks, as is currently the case in Yemen. But what migratory pathways do these bacteria generally adopt? Can we monitor, or even anticipate, cholera outbreaks at global level? In...
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Fiche maladie | 2019.01.07
Cervical cancer and papillomavirus
Cervical cancer is the fourth most common form of cancer in women worldwide. Almost all cases can be attributed to chronic infection with viruses belonging to the papillomavirus family. Globally, approximately 600,000 new cases and more than 300,000 deaths are recorded every year. Cervical cancer can be prevented with regular screening.
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News | 2019.01.22
Effect of the seasons on pneumococcal infections
Pneumococcal infections are still a global public health problem. Though striking, the seasonality of these infections remains a mystery for science. Researchers from the Institut Pasteur have finally unraveled the mechanisms behind the discontinuity of these infections.The pneumococcus bacterium is responsible for severe infections (pneumonia and meningitis) and frequent deaths (almost three...
