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News | 2022.07.01
Monitoring and early warning: Pasteur Center in Cameroon plays an active role in the response to SARS-CoV-2 virus
As a first-line laboratory in the event of a health emergency, the Pasteur Center in Cameroon was naturally designated as a COVID-19 reference laboratory by the Cameroon health authorities in 2020. How did the Pasteur Center in Cameroon organize its response to this emerging novel virus at national level throughout the epidemic, and how is it monitoring the virus today?At the beginning of the...
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Document de presse | 2016.04.11
Malaria: a new route of access to the heart of the parasite
Scientists have just identified an Achilles heel in the parasite that causes malaria, by showing that its optimum development is dependent on its ability to expropriate RNA molecules in infected cells – a host-pathogen interaction that had never previously been observed. Although the precise function of this deviation remains mysterious, these findings open new perspectives for the targeted...
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Document de presse | 2014.03.10
Inauguration of a Regional Platform of Research on transmissible and emerging infectious diseases in Southeast Asia (PRR-Asia)
Southeast Asia (SEA) is affected by emerging infectious diseases, and emerging outbreaks challenge the medical and scientific communities. The emergence of new diseases or their resistance to anti-microbial drugs in SEA is a complex mechanism which requires more interest on the diseases, on the condition of their emergence and on the diffusion of the causative agents. The study of infection...
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Document de presse | 2012.02.09
Newly characterized dengue virus antibody shows promise
Research teams from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS, and Inserm have recently characterized the structure and mechanism of action of an antibody that successfully neutralizes all four strains of the dengue virus in mice models. Their groundbreaking work represents major progress for research efforts that hope to develop an effective vaccine to combat this disease. This study was published February...
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Document de presse | 2014.08.27
Potential strategies for limiting the hepatitis C epidemic in Egypt
In the fight against hepatitis C, directing preventive and curative interventions towards sufferers of chronic diseases requiring regular medical care would be an effective means of reducing transmission of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in Egypt, and undoubtedly also in other countries with limited resources. This theory has arisen from a mathematical modeling study carried out as part of the ANRS...
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Document de presse | 2014.09.01
Mental states control the integration of new neurons in the adult brain
Although it has been known for several years that the adult brain is capable of producing new neurons, how these neurons are integrated into existing, functional nerve circuits has hitherto remained a mystery. Scientists at the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS have just shown that new neurons set up a denser network of connections with the rest of the brain in contexts of active (as opposed to...
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Document de presse | 2010.01.18
The life and death of neurons: how a virus can control everything
Researchers at the Institut Pasteur and the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) have just discovered that the rabies virus expresses in one of its proteins a key region which enables the human neurons that it infects to survive, and this is an essential condition for the virus to spread in the organism. By identifying the mechanisms which regulate whether the neuron survives or...
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Document de presse | 2008.10.13
A new mechanism of resistance to dengue virus
It is becoming increasingly common to see individuals infected by the dengue virus who develop an ultimately fatal hemorrhagic syndrome, particularly in children during epidemics. However, in most cases, dengue remains a generally benign or even asymptomatic viral infection. One explanation for this phenomenon has just been put forward by researchers from CNRS , Institut Pasteur ,...
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Document de presse | 2004.03.14
A new step towards using neural stem celles to repair the brain
A team from the Institut Pasteur associated with the CNRS has just identified a key molecule in the brain capable of attracting new neurons and guiding them towards areas that they could repair. This discovery, previewed on the site Nature Neuroscience (http://www.nature.com/neuro/), brings to the fore a molecule essential for the organization of neuronal circuits in adults. This introduces...
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Document de presse | 2016.10.12
Press release following publication of an article in The Korea Times on October 5, 2016
In an article published online in The Korea Times on October 5, 2016, serious accusations were made against the Institut Pasteur in Korea and the Institut Pasteur in Paris and its President. A scientist from the Institut Pasteur in Korea is accused of allegedly exposing to risk the passengers of an international flight in October 2015 by transporting samples of the MERS-CoV virus. In the same...