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2025.03.08
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Did you know that only 20% of Wikipedia biographies are dedicated to women? This...
News
2025.02.25
"I've believed in tunneling nanotubes since the beginning!" says Chiara Zurzolo, Head of the Membrane Traffic and Pathogenesis Unit at the Institut Pasteur....
Vidéo
2025.02.10
Dive into the heart of the trypanosome, the parasite responsible for sleeping sickness!
Transmitted by the bite of the tsetse fly, this disease affects over 30...
Document de presse
2025.01.31
Guinea celebrates today the elimination of sleeping sickness (also known as human African trypanosomiasis or HAT) as a public health problem.
Despite health...
News
2024.12.19
In 1896, Charles Achard and Raoul Bensaude, both physicians within the Paris Public Hospital Network, identified an infection in patients presenting with...
Document de presse
2024.12.06
Scientists from the National Reference Center for Vibrios and Cholera at the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with the Centre hospitalier de Mayotte, have...
Report
2024.12.11
The first cases of mpox in the Central African Republic were recorded in the 1980s in a family living in the south-west of the country. The Institut Pasteur de...
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2024.12.09
In September 2023, the Institut Pasteur invited experts involved in managing the COVID-19 crisis in 13 Western European countries to a meeting in Paris. The...
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2024.07.04
What precise mechanisms do coronaviruses use to infect us? More than four years after the infamous SARS-CoV-2 emerged in humans, many scientists are still...
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2024.06.27
Intermittent fasting has become a popular practice in recent years. It is known to have beneficial health effects – several studies1, 2, 3 have shown that...