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Document de presse | 2015.05.25
Kurma Partners announces the launch of its third fund Kurma Diagnostics (KDx)
The European Investment Fund (EIF), Fonds National d’Amorçage (FNA) managed by Bpifrance as part of the French government’s Investments for the future (“Investissements d’Avenir”) program, Institut Pasteur, and BNP Paribas are participating in the first closing (€33M). Press release Paris, May 26, 2015 Kurma Diagnostics: the first Venture Capital...
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Document de presse | 2014.06.18
Can injuries to the skin be painless?
When the body receives an injury to the skin, a signal is sent to the brain, which generates a sensation of pain. Teams led by Priscille Brodin in Lille[1] and Laurent Marsollier in Angers[2] have studied lesions in patients with Buruli ulcer, a tropical disease. In an article published in the journal Cell, they show that, despite the extent and severity of these wounds, they are less painful...
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News | 2016.04.28
Discovery of the mechanism used to coordinate replication of the two Vibrio cholerae chromosomes
Bacterial genomes generally contain a single chromosome and one or more extrachromosal elements such as plasmids. The initiation of bacterial chromosome replication must be carefully checked to ensure that chromosome duplication occurs only once per cell cycle. The bacterial pathogen responsible for cholera epidemics, Vibrio cholerae, is distinctive in that it has two chromosomes. The teams led...
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News | 2015.09.28
New Fellowships have been announced to enhance the next generation of global health leaders
The Dennis and Mireille Gillings Global Public Health Fellowships are a collaboration between the University of Cambridge and the Institut Pasteur. Designed to advance the next generation of public health leaders, the three year post-doctoral fellowships aim to instill financial acumen and business entrepreneurship against a backdrop of research excellence, all at a formative stage in the careers...
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News | 2017.06.19
Drastic reduction of exposure to malaria in Senegal
In Senegal the prevalence of malaria declined from over 30% to less than 5% between the early 2000s and 2015 thanks to the implementation of preventive measures recommended by WHO such as Artemisinin-based combination therapy, rapid diagnosis and impregnated mosquito nets. What is the impact of these preventive measures on antimalarial immunity of populations?To answer this question, several...
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News | 2018.11.15
Réseau Bactériophages France receives the François Sommer Foundation scientific prize
For its third edition, the 2018 François Sommer "Humans and Nature" Prize has been awarded to the French Phage Network Réseau Bactériophage France, set up by Laurent Debarbieux (Institut Pasteur, Paris). This French scientific prize of international dimension is dedicated to multidisciplinary research works, with innovative and promising perspectives concerning relations between human and nature....
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News | 2021.03.01
BIGPICTURE: artificial intelligence for a European database of pathology images
The Institut Pasteur's Biological Image Analysis Unit is taking part in a new project selected by the EU's Innovative Medicines Initiative. The project, BIGPICTURE, aims to speed up the development of artificial intelligence (AI) in medicine, especially in biomedical image analysis.A new consortium selected by the EU's Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) intends to develop the biggest database...
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News | 2020.03.20
Importance of cohesin to yeasts' 3D chromosome structure
The 3D organization of chromosomes plays a role in many biological processes. The ring formed by the cohesin complex is an important regulator of this organization, especially in mammals where it establishes chromatin loops during interphase. Researchers from the Spatial Regulation of Genomes Unit and the CNRS show that such loops structure yeast chromosomes in metaphase and characterize the...
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News | 2022.03.22
Ukrainian scientists: offer to join a host laboratory at the Institut Pasteur in Paris
In view of the ongoing war in Ukraine, the Institut Pasteur is providing funding to host Ukrainian scientists in its research laboratories.
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News | 2023.06.19
Gene therapies: new hopes for curing deafness
Hearing impairment affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Researchers at the Hearing Institute have mapped at the single cell level the spatio-temporal expression of genes within the sensory organ of hearing, the cochlea, paving the way for the development of gene therapy treatments for hereditary forms of deafness.