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Article | 2021.06.24
Pasteurians and Institut Pasteur alumni Network
The Institut Pasteur gathers its community, Pasteurians and Alumni, with an international network aimed at all past and present Institut Pasteur staff from Paris or any of the members of the Pasteur Network.
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Article | 2021.06.24
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News | 2021.03.30
Mobilization of the Institut Pasteur International Network to manage the COVID-19 outbreak: case study of support provided to the Institut Pasteur de Bangui
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and increasingly rapidly thereafter, the Institut Pasteur International Network has drawn heavily on all its expertise and resources to tackle this emerging virus and its consequences, particularly through its support of institutes based in low-income countries. All Network member institutes have been identified by their health authorities as...
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News | 2021.03.09
Whooping cough: light shed on the entry mechanism of a key Bordetella pertussis virulence factor
Bordetella pertussis is the agent responsible for whooping cough, a disease that is currently on the rise. In particular, the bacterium produces the CyaA toxin. A consortium including several teams from the Institut Pasteur, CNRS, and Sorbonne University, working closely with the C2RT Proteins Pole technical cores and several SOLEIL and ESRF synchrotron light lines, has examined the entry...
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News | 2021.02.15
Discovery of messenger RNA in 1961
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, words that just a year ago would have been the preserve of scientists have entered everyday language. One example is PCR, used for diagnostic tests. Another term that was once unfamiliar and is now on everyone's lips is messenger RNA, the miraculous molecule that has led to vaccines being administered to the general population less than a year after...
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Document de presse | 2021.01.25
COVID-19: progress update on the Institut Pasteur's scientific response and vaccine candidate research programs
Since early 2020, the Institut Pasteur has been engaged in research in several of its areas of scientific expertise, including virology, diagnostics, pathophysiology, epidemiology, modeling, therapeutic research and vaccine research. A number of research programs to find a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 epidemic, are under way. In light of the intermediate results...
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Document de presse | 2021.01.19
COVID-19: a lentiviral vaccine candidate for intranasal administration provides sterilizing protection in animal models
Scientists from the Institut Pasteur-TheraVectys Joint Laboratory recently published in Cell Host & Microbe1 the results of tests, in two preclinical models, of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate using a lentiviral vector administered by nasal route. Their study demonstrates that the vaccine candidate induces antibody response with strong neutralizing activity against SARS-CoV-2, as well as...
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Document de presse | 2020.12.28
COVID-19: optimizing surveillance in long-term care facilities
Throughout the world, long-term care facilities have been high-risk sites for virus spread since the emergence of the COVID-19 epidemic. In this context, the capacity for timely surveillance and control of case numbers is essential in such facilities. Scientists at the Institut Pasteur have joined forces with the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Inserm, and the National...
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News | 2020.11.26
Urinary tract infections: the mechanisms behind the lack of immune memory in many patients
Urinary tract infections (UTI) are a group of infectious diseases that predominantly impact healthy adult women, although they can also cause serious disease in men. They are the second most prevalent infection after respiratory infections*. The immune response to UTI is still not well-understood, and a better understanding could help lessen the use of antibiotics for this common infection....
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News | 2020.11.12
Alzheimer: how endogenously formed Tau aggregates fail to be degraded
Alzheimer's disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that mainly affects memory, but also other cognitive functions linked to knowledge and involving language, logical thought and learning capacity. This disease generally leads to loss of independence for sufferers. It is one of the leading causes of disability and dependency in elderly people. There is currently no cure for the...