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News | 2018.06.15
In remembrance of Dr François Rouet
Our colleague and friend François Rouet passed away on June 13, 2018 at the age of 53 following a long illness. The Institut Pasteur International Network wishes to pay tribute to this passionate scientist and public health man who has dedicated his career to improving the care of patients in the most disadvantaged countries.Trained pharmacist, François performs his national service in Cameroon...
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News | 2020.04.15
COVID-19 - The Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Hub on the front line
Like many other research teams at the Institut Pasteur, the Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Hub is engaged in fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic by participating in the curation of GISAID data (Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data). The Hub is the service division of the Computational Biology Department, and is composed of 50 experts in biostatistics and bioinformatics.At the end...
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News | 2020.11.09
Leptospirosis: elucidation of a new gene regulation mechanism based on DNA modification
Pathogenic Leptospira are responsible for leptospirosis, a disease that occurs in many world regions. Leptospirosis is a zoonosis, in other words it affects wild or domestic animals but may be transmitted to humans. A partnership between the Institut Pasteur (Paris) and the INRS Armand-Frappier Santé Biotechnologie Research Center has led to the discovery of a novel mechanism for virulence...
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News | 2023.07.10
Enteric viruses with similar genomes in humans and great apes
A study conducted in Cameroon looked at enteric viruses in humans and some great ape species. These viruses share the same genomes. This "sharing" is thought to be a result of hunting, meat consumption and pillaging by great apes. The findings confirm the scale of pathogen transmission between humans and animals, which can represent a threat to human and animal health.
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Fiche maladie | 2015.10.06
Candidiasis
Fungi (yeast) of the Candida genus can cause superficial infections affecting the mucous membranes or skin, and invasive infections, either localized to one organ or generalized throughout the body. Of the 200 known species of Candida, around twenty are responsible for human infection. Candida yeasts are often responsible for severe, hospital-acquired infections.
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News | 2016.02.14
Birdy: assessing the impact of resistant bacterial infections in young children
The research program BIRDY is focused on bacterial infections, including resistant, in small children. On the occasion of the publication in The Lancet of a correspondence calling for accelerated efforts in research and public health in the fight against neonatal bacterial infection and antibiotic resistance in low-income countries, Dr. Awa Ndir, epidemiologist at the ...
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News | 2018.03.23
Multiscale structure of the Escherichia coli genome
The Escherichia coli bacterium is a major focus of research in biology. But the higher-order organization of its genome had yet to be investigated using techniques such as chromosome conformation capture (3C/Hi-C). In a paper published in the journal Cell, scientists from the Institut Pasteur revealed using this approach the existence of several levels of chromosomal folding linked to known...
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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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News | 2018.07.02
Roman Thibeaux’s joust with bacterial armor
Countering the bacteria responsible for leptospirosis by attacking the "shield" they make to protect themselves: this is the strategy that Roman Thibeaux, a young researcher at the Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle-Calédonie is trying to develop. Born on the island, he left the South Pacific region for a decade before coming back better armed.Roman Thibeaux has been immersed in a medical environment...
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Document de presse | 2020.05.26
COVID-19: the vast majority of patients with a minor form develop neutralizing antibodies
Teams from Strasbourg University Hospital and the Institut Pasteur carried out a study among hospital staff on the two sites of Strasbourg University Hospital. After observing 160 people with minor forms of COVID-19, the scientists concluded that nearly all the patients developed antibodies within two weeks of being infected. In 98% of the patients, neutralizing antibodies were detected after 28...