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Document de presse | 2022.06.07
Institut Pasteur and MSDAVENIR sign a partnership to improve strategies for controlling the spread of vector-borne viral diseases like Zika
The Institut Pasteur and MSDAVENIR, a health research endowment fund by MSD, signed an important partnership to anticipate responses to future vector-borne viral epidemics today. The partnership, worth more than €1.7 million, will support the INTRANZIGEANT project led by Dr. Louis Lambrechts, head of the Virus-Insect Interactions Unit, and Xavier Montagutelli, head of the Mouse Genetics...
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News | 2022.07.11
How ‘death’ molecules squeeze the cells out of our tissues
Most of our tissues are constantly renewed and needs to get rid of dying cells without affecting their organisation. A newly identified mechanism is responsible for the seamless exclusion of dying cells from our tissues. This process is based on the dismantling of microtubules, long fibers well known for their function during cell division and transport in the cells. Tuning microtubules stability...
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Document de presse | 2022.12.20
Identification of a new neural pathway essential for refining odor perception
In the brain, sensory messages are processed by neurons that send the information collected by the sensory organ to the different structures of the brain. At each stage of integration, the activity of these neurons is controlled by interneurons that exert local inhibition in order to direct and modulate the neural messages. This type of circuit forms the classical architecture of the sensory...
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Document de presse | 2023.02.21
A blood factor involved in depression
The process of aging is often related to the onset of cognitive decline, depression and memory loss. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur, CNRS and Inserm have discovered that administration of the GDF11 protein, which is known to regenerate murine neural stem cells, improves cognitive abilities and reduces the depressive state in aged mice. They also demonstrated the mechanism of action of this...
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Document de presse | 2023.03.31
The Institut Pasteur and the University of São Paulo sign articles of association to establish the Institut Pasteur in São Paulo
On Friday March 31st, 2023 at a ceremony in Paris, the Institut Pasteur President, Professor Stewart Cole, and the University of São Paulo (USP) Rector, Carlos Gilberto Carlotti Junior, signed articles of association for the Institut Pasteur in São Paulo, a private non-profit organization under Brazilian law. The mission of the institute, an associate member of the Pasteur Network, is to conduct...
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Document de presse | 2023.07.11
A global overview of antibiotic resistance determinants
To understand the main determinants behind worldwide antibiotic resistance dynamics, scientists from the Institut Pasteur, Inserm, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and Université Paris-Saclay developed a statistical model based on a large-scale spatial-temporal analysis. Using the ATLAS antimicrobial resistance surveillance database, the model revealed significant differences in...
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News | 2023.09.11
Food safety and antibiotic resistance: the fight against Listeria and Salmonella
The Fondation Le Roch-Les Mousquetaires is supporting two research projects at the Institut Pasteur on food safety and combating antibiotic resistance.
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Document de presse | 2023.11.23
How does neonatal listeriosis impact children's health?
Maternal-fetal listeriosis is a severe disease that can lead to miscarriage, premature birth or serious neonatal infection. But what are the long-term consequences of neonatal listeriosis on the health of surviving infants? For the first time, a team of scientists and physicians from the Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, the Paris Public Hospital Network (AP-HP) and Inserm monitored the...
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Document de presse | 2023.12.01
40 years after the discovery of HIV, research raises hopes of remission
Nearly 39 million people worldwide are carriers of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and 1.3 million people contracted HIV in 2022[1]. Forty years after the virus was discovered at the Institut Pasteur, HIV research is still active – the aim is to elucidate the mechanisms of infection so that the virus can be eradicated. A concerted global effort has led to considerable progress in knowledge....
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News | 2023.06.06
HIV-AIDS: natural killer cells that target HIV
African green monkeys are able to live while being infected with the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) without ever developing AIDS. Their hint? Directly eliminate infected cells, without causing an inflammatory reaction that the virus could use to its advantage.