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2021.05.31
Diphtheria is a severe infection caused in humans by toxigenic strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae bacteria. If left untreated, it leads to death in 5 to 25...
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2021.06.01
The structure of DNA and chromosomes is a major focus of research, but still holds a number of mysteries. Scientists from the Institut Pasteur and the CNRS...
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2021.05.20
Rabies is still responsible for approximately 60,000 deaths in humans each year. The bat-borne virus EBL1a, related to rabies, rarely affects humans, but a...
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2021.05.21
Dominant optic atrophy (DOA) is one of the most common forms of mitochondrial disease. It can be caused by genetic mutations in OPA1 resulting in mitochondrial...
Document de presse
2021.05.12
Inserm teams led by Laurent Reber (Infinity, Toulouse) and Pierre Bruhns (Humoral Immunity, Institut Pasteur, Paris) and French company NEOVACS have developed...
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2021.05.05
Malaria remains a major public health burden in some world regions. In 2018, 237,000 cases were reported in Brazil, 91.5% of them caused by the parasite...
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2021.04.26
Preventive vaccination is a powerful tool in controlling viral outbreaks. It is important that any side effects associated with the use of vaccines are as mild...
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2021.03.30
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and increasingly rapidly thereafter, the Institut Pasteur International Network has drawn heavily on all its...
Document de presse
2021.04.06
In all adult vertebrates, neural stem cells can be recruited to produce new neurons in the brain. However, little is known about these so-called "activation"...
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2021.03.30
Immunotherapy, or the notion of "retraining" patients' immune systems, constitutes a major step forward in the fight against cancer. Although the results of...