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Document de presse | 2009.04.07
HIV/AIDS and developing countries: bathroom scales to improve monitoring of patients receiving antiretroviral therapy?
In developing countries, where access to laboratory tests remains limited, could use of a criterion as simple as weight gain improve the management of HIV-infected patients receiving antiretroviral therapy? This is what has been suggested by a research published in the AIDS journal and conducted by researchers from the Institut Pasteur in partnership with Médecins Sans Frontières. Now that access...
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Document de presse | 2005.12.10
The mechanisms that trigger a debilitating genetic disease have been unveiled
Researchers from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS have unravelled the cellular mechanisms that are deregulated in polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a life threatening genetic disease that damages kidney function. The authors showed that the dilation of renal tubules leading to cyst formation is linked to a disorganised growth of tubular cells. This research, published in “Nature Genetics...
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Article | 2016.12.02
Health
The Institut Pasteur is putting its scientific expertise to work for the health of populations and individuals. The Institut Pasteur in Paris is home to several national and international centers of expertise that monitor infectious diseases. And the Institut Pasteur Medical Center — which vaccinates thousands of people every year — specializes in infectious and tropical diseases, travel medicine...
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News | 2016.12.15
Two major types of rabies that evolved in different ways
Scientists studying hundreds of genome sequences of the rabies virus at the Institut Pasteur have shown that two major viral types – bat rabies and dog rabies – evolved in different ways. These genetic data provide evolutionary models that may explain transmission between one species and another.Diseases transferred from vertebrate animals to humans represent a very real threat to human health....
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News | 2016.07.13
A new mechanism used by group B Streptococcus to evade the host immune system
Pathogenic bacteria produce a number of molecules that can be recognized by the innate immune system. These molecules associated with pathogens trigger an inflammatory response by stimulating specific signaling pathways in infected immune cells. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS, in cooperation with the University of Massachusetts Medical School, have demonstrated that group B...
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Document de presse | 2017.03.16
Message from the Chairman of the Institut Pasteur Board of Directors
The Institut Pasteur's governance is gradually getting back to normal. The new Board of Directors elected by the Institut Pasteur General Meeting met on November 24, 2016. It has set up a new bureau and various committees that are vital for the smooth running of the Board and the leadership of the foundation's work.Since this date, the Board has devoted its efforts to the implementation of its...
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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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News | 2019.02.06
A new breakthrough in limb development
Congenital limb defects are very common and occur in 1.5 in 1,000 births. Some are minor, such as a missing finger, while others are more serious, a missing limb for instance. Fundamental biology looks at the buds of developing limbs and how this development may be linked to defects. Limb position is fairly constant within a same species and yet relatively variable in vertebrates. In an article...
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News | 2019.07.25
Aimee Wessel and Raphaël Tomasi win the i-Lab award for their MultiScreen project
On July 4, the i-Lab innovation competition unveiled the names of its 75 winners, which this year included Aimee Wessel and Raphaël Tomasi from the Physical Microfluidics and Bioengineering Unit (Institut Pasteur/École Polytechnique/CNRS). Sponsored by the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation and organized in partnership with Bpifrance Financement, i-Lab is France's...
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Portrait | 2018.11.05
Lhousseine Touqui, helping some thanks to others
Driven by curiosity, Lhousseine Touqui has spent many years conducting fundamental research on the respiratory system. Today, his work in the joint Institut Pasteur/Cochin Hospital-PARIS 5 University unit aims to address real needs.Lhousseine Touqui was born in Marrakesh, Morocco where his parents were farmers. He had a gift for mathematics and so specialized in the subject at high school. But...