Scientists and physicians are attempting to elucidate the mechanisms of an atypical form of liver cancer in Peru that is mainly affecting young people. Their research has revealed previously unknown risk factors.

Why are young Peruvians developing liver cancer? The highly unusual forms of the disease are attracting the attention of scientists and healthcare workers. Their goal is to prevent, detect and treat this alarming condition, which virtually always proves fatal.

Scientifiques et médecins s’emploient à décrypter les tenants d’une épidémiologie atypique du cancer du foie au Pérou, où les jeunes sont les premières victimes de la maladie. Leurs travaux mettent en lumière des facteurs de risque demeurés invisibles jusqu’ici.

Pourquoi les jeunes Péruviens développent-ils des cancers du foie ? Les formes très singulières que revêt la maladie mobilisent les travaux de scientifiques et de soignants. L’enjeu n’est rien de moins que de prévenir, détecter et prendre en charge ce fléau presque toujours fatal aux malades.

On October 6, 2008, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Professors Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier for their identification of the retrovirus responsible for AIDS at the Institut Pasteur in 1983.

Le 6 octobre 2008, le prix Nobel de médecine était décerné aux professeurs Françoise Barré-Sinoussi et Luc Montagnier pour l’identification en 1983 à l’Institut Pasteur du rétrovirus responsable du sida.

Settled in Cayenne for 11 years, Claude Flamand heads the Epidemiology Unit at the Institut Pasteur de la Guyane. Since 2014, this epidemiologist and biostatistician works with the French National Centre for Space Studies to predict dengue epidemics in time and space thanks to satellite imaging.

Since December 2016, Brazil has been grappling with its worst yellow fever outbreak for several decades. To date, there have been 2,043 human cases including 676 fatalities, mainly occurring in ten Brazilian states including Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. These two states, the most heavily populated in Brazil, had been free of yellow fever for nearly 70 years. Research by scientists at the Institut Pasteur and the Institut Oswaldo Cruz has demonstrated that the yellow fever virus can be transmitted via Aedes albopictus, the tiger mosquito.

Depuis décembre 2016, le Brésil a dû faire face à sa plus importante épidémie de fièvre jaune depuis des décennies. A ce jour, on compte 2043 cas humains dont 676 décès qui proviennent principalement de 10 états brésiliens dont Rio de Janeiro et São Paulo. Ces deux états, les plus peuplés du Brésil sont depuis près de 70 ans indemnes de fièvre jaune.

On September 13, 2018, the Institut Pasteur inaugurated its "Omics" buildings, which will serve to explore the myriad possibilities offered by the development of computational biology. The buildings will house scientists from a wide range of disciplines together with state-of-the-art technologies.

The Decision and Bayesian Computation research team, led by Jean-Baptiste Masson at the Institut Pasteur, in collaboration with the observation and control laboratory of the cellular organization, at the Institut Curie, has developed a new software platform called DIVA: Data Integration and Visualization in Augmented and Virtual Environments.

Mohamed El Beheiry, researcher at the Institut Pasteur and Institut Curie, introduces Diva, a unique software platform that places users in virtual environments in three dimensions (video in French).

On September 12, the Institut Pasteur hosted a debate entitled "Sepsis – uniting to tackle a little-known threat", under the aegis of the French Ministry for Solidarity and Health. Sepsis is the term used internationally to describe a systemic inflammatory response to severe infection. As well as raising awareness of this unknown disease, the debate highlighted the measures taken by the French General Directorate of Health.