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News | 2018.03.14
Six institutions members of the Institut Pasteur international network engaged in an international coalition against epidemics in Africa
Today, emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases poses a global health threat that can only be tackled through international collaborative efforts. This is all the more true in the African continent where recent outbreaks have highlighted the need to rapidly implement clinical studies in support of control efforts.To address this challenge, a new clinical research and response network has been...
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Article | 2018.04.05
Campus
The Institut Pasteur's staff enjoy the luxury of a 5-hectare campus in the center of Paris that currently houses 39 buildings, 23 of which are used for scientific research. Several of these buildings are listed historical monuments. The Institut Pasteur has a total of 48,000m2 of laboratory space.We are fully committed to this historical campus and are currently making major investments to...
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News | 2019.06.04
The Musée Pasteur featured in book of Parisian hidden gems
Louis Pasteur, “France's most famous citizen-scientist,” has always piqued international interest and now the Musée Pasteur—which is built around the space where Pasteur lived and worked—has been included in “The Little(r) Museums of Paris,” an inventive new guidebook to be released on June 4 in the United States and on June 27 in France. The book invites Paris visitors to experience the...
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News | 2020.03.19
Discovery of numerous potential open reading frames in the Cryptococcus genome
Gene structure, including the transcript leader, is very diverse in fungi. New sequencing data analysis from the RNA Biology of Fungal Pathogens unit revealed that in the pathogenic yeasts Cryptococcus, the transcript leader sequence are rich in potential upstream Open Reading Frames, which regulate both gene expression and protein diversity.Pathogenic Cryptococcus species are responsible for...
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News | 2020.08.04
Malaria: parasite resistance to artemisinin now found in Africa
Resistance to artemisinin, the main component of current antimalarial treatments recommended by WHO, is widespread in South-East Asia, but has not been described in Africa. In a study published in 2020, scientists from the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with the NMCP in Rwanda, the WHO and Columbia University provided for the first time evidence of the de novo emergence of Pfkelch13-mediated...
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Document de presse | 2021.08.26
COVID-19: Will telecommuting strategies stop the virus from circulating?
How can we best organise on-site workplace and school attendance periods and remote work to slow the circulation of Sars-CoV-2? Is it better to separate classes? Bring your whole team in at the same time? Set this up on daily or weekly schedules? The COVID-19 pandemic has forced most countries to impose contact limitations in workplaces, universities and schools. Scientists from the CNRS,...
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Article | 2016.12.20
University of Coimbra Medical school PT
This program allows students from the University of Coimbra to spend up to 6 months in a laboratory at Institut Pasteur. Applicants are selected through a competitive call, based on the analysis of the CV. In order to maximize their motivation selected trainees are allowed to choose their host centre.
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News | 2023.03.22
The origins of SARS-CoV-2: the search goes on
Where did SARS-CoV-2 come from? How did this virus enter the human population? These questions still remain unanswered. In June 2022, a group of experts, the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO), published a report on the origin of coronavirus but was unable to draw a definitive conclusion. Since then, research has...
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News | 2016.02.14
Birdy: assessing the impact of resistant bacterial infections in young children
The research program BIRDY is focused on bacterial infections, including resistant, in small children. On the occasion of the publication in The Lancet of a correspondence calling for accelerated efforts in research and public health in the fight against neonatal bacterial infection and antibiotic resistance in low-income countries, Dr. Awa Ndir, epidemiologist at the ...
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News | 2018.03.23
Multiscale structure of the Escherichia coli genome
The Escherichia coli bacterium is a major focus of research in biology. But the higher-order organization of its genome had yet to be investigated using techniques such as chromosome conformation capture (3C/Hi-C). In a paper published in the journal Cell, scientists from the Institut Pasteur revealed using this approach the existence of several levels of chromosomal folding linked to known...