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Document de presse | 2016.03.07
Obesity: an epigenetic track to fight against weight gain and hypercholesterolemia
The number of obesity cases has doubled since 1980: in 2014, over 600 million adults were affected across the world. The causes of this epidemic include unbalanced diet, as well as environmental and genetic factors. French INRA researchers, in association with colleagues from the Institut Pasteur, Inserm, CNRS and the University of Cambridge (UK), reveal that an epigenetic factor, the BAHD1...
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Document de presse | 2014.12.03
Institut Pasteur Graduation Ceremony 2014
The Institut Pasteur will host on the 12th of December 2014 the 2nd ceremony in honor of its graduating PhD class, with the Doctors having defended in 2013-2014. This ceremony will be chaired by Pr Christian Bréchot, President of the Institut Pasteur. It will be held in presence of Jean-Philippe Pierre, deputy mayor of the 15th arrondissement of Paris. Press release Paris,...
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Document de presse | 2010.02.14
Customized stem cells to help treat leukemia?
Researchers at the Institut Pasteur and the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) have just discovered the origin of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC), which give rise to all blood and immune cells in the body. Using real-time imaging technology on zebrafish embryos, the researchers observed that these stem cells were formed from the cells of the aortic wall, the embryo's main...
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Article | 2016.11.29
Neighbors Area
The Institut Pasteur has a dedicated area for its neighbours. Here information is available about developments that may impact on their daily lives. This area is provided as part of an overall approach to promote ongoing and constructive dialogue.
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News | 2018.11.30
A new step in understanding the mechanisms that control cilia length
Cilia and flagella – cellular projections attached to the membrane – are involved in numerous processes, for example sensory signal reception or cell movement. The diseases affecting these projections, ciliopathies, result from defects linked to cilia and flagella length. Institut Pasteur scientists have tried to unravel the mechanisms controlling the length of the appendages in the hope of...
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News | 2019.01.28
Insecticide resistance genes affect vector competence for West Nile virus
In a context of overuse of insecticides, which leads to the selection of resistant mosquitoes, it is already known that this resistance to insecticides affects interactions between mosquitoes and the pathogens they transmit. Researchers from the Institut Pasteur (Paris) and its partners prove that mechanisms of insecticide resistance, observed in Culex quinquefasciatus vector, impact the...
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News | 2019.06.04
At the Institut Pasteur, a new insectarium for arbovirus mosquito vectors
The Institut Pasteur in Paris has opened a vast new insectarium for rearing mosquitoes with the potential to transmit arboviruses – viruses transmitted between vertebrates via a bite from a hematophagous vector. By rearing large quantities of mosquitoes in controlled conditions at this new facility, scientists will be better equipped to tackle future challenges associated with emerging vector-...
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News | 2019.07.16
Immature heart cells persist in the adult heart and react to infarction
Cardiovascular diseases are a major cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. After myocardial infarction, heart cells (or cardiomyocytes) die and are replaced by fibrotic tissue leading to impaired cardiac function. The assessment of the regenerative capacity of the heart has always been compromised by the lack of signatures to characterize cardiomyocytes. Researchers from the Institut Pasteur...
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News | 2020.12.01
Embryonic development – the role of Nodal in establishing cardiac asymmetry
Cardiac asymmetry established during embryonic development is critical to heart function. 1% of all newborns are affected by a heart defect, which in France accounts for approximately 8,000 babies per year. It is therefore essential to understand the mechanisms of heart formation in order to determine the causes of these defects. Sigolène Meilhac's Heart Morphogenesis team at the Institut Pasteur...
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Document de presse | 2022.07.22
Meningref trial shows better protection against meningococcal infection in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients
The team in the Hematology Department at Henri Mondor AP-HP Hospital, coordinated by Dr. Christine Robin, and scientists from the Institut Pasteur (the Invasive Bacterial Infections Unit led by Professor Muhamed-Kheir Taha) recently studied protection against meningococcal infection in patients who had received hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.The results of this trial (NCT03509051),...