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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 6d

Pour chaque vie, la science agit.
Le Pasteurdon, c’est maintenant !
Soutenez la recherche et celles et ceux qui la font avancer ↘️ pasteurdon.fr
#Pasteurdon

Pour chaque vie, la science agit. Le Pasteurdon, c’est maintenant ! Soutenez la recherche et celles et ceux qui la font avancer. Faites un don sur pasteurdon.fr

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Eduardo Rocha @epcrocha.bsky.social · 8h

Two intensive sampling periods of oyster-associated vibrio and their phage, 4 years apart, and many surprises. Despite being washed by the Atlantic, wide tides, and vibrio (almost?) disappearing most of the year, we can find the exact same virulent phages 4 years later (down to 0 SNP)! preprint👇

Lytic phages form modular isolation networks and exhibit long-term genetic stability

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 1d

Persistent viral #infections in #insects are not as harmless as once believed. @salehlabparis.bsky.social &co show how such infections in #FruitFlies alter survival, reproduction, behavior & gene expression, revealing the hidden costs of #viral persistence @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4olpuXm

Cartoon illustration depicting a sick Drosophila melanogaster surrounded by different viruses, symbolizing the impact of persistent viral infections on the model organism. Image credit Rubén González.

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Institut Pasteur Education @pasteuredu.bsky.social · 16h

🧠Et si des sons pouvaient aider à guérir la dyslexie ?
- #MyPhDattheInstitutPasteur

Découvrez Olesia, doctorante à l’Institut de l’Audition, qui explore une approche novatrice pour améliorer la lecture chez les enfants dyslexiques : stimuler le cerveau avec des sons.

Plus d'info en commentaires 💡

🧠 Et si des sons pouvaient aider à guérir la dyslexie ? | My PhD at the Institut Pasteur

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 17h

Blood cancer: reprogramming cell death to awaken immunity.

Institut Pasteur & Inserm scientists show that forcing malignant B cells into necroptosis triggers a powerful anti‑tumor response. A triple‑therapy strategy clears leukemia in preclinical models.

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Blood cancer: a treatment to reprogram cancer cell death and trigger the immune system

The aim of immunotherapy strategies is to leverage cells in the patient's own immune system to destroy tumor cells. Using a preclinical model, scientists from the Institut Pasteur and Inserm successfu...

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Institut Pasteur Education @pasteuredu.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 1 week left to apply for the Pasteur-Paris University International PhD Program (PPU)!

Join an international community of scientists at the Institut Pasteur 🌍 Dedicated support, mentorship & world-class labs included.

📅Deadline: Oct 20, 2025
🎓Program start: October 2026

👉 Apply: bit.ly/CallPPU

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 2d

🏅 What a run! Huge bravo to our team for finishing the #20kmdeParis and sharing Pasteurian values all along the route.

Your energy drives discovery & supports #pasteurdon — merci to everyone who cheered and participated ! 💙👟

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 3d

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Covid long : l'énigme cérébrale

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 3d

Bonjour Didier,
Nous sommes attentifs à ces excellents contenus sur le COVID long.
Récemment, nos équipes ont publié de nouvelles découvertes sur la persistance du SARS-CoV-2 dans le tronc cérébral et son impact sur l'activité neuronale : www.pasteur.fr/fr/espace-pr...

Courage dans votre parcours.

Covid long : le SARS-CoV-2 persiste à long terme dans le tronc cérébral et dérègle l’activité des neurones

Plusieurs mois après l’infection au SARS-CoV-2, des symptômes peuvent perdurer chez certains patients. Les scientifiques de l’Institut Pasteur montrent chez un modèle animal, que le SARS-CoV-2 infecte...

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Hanna Julienne @hanna-julienne.bsky.social · 4d

🧬 New multi-trait genetic paper on asthma heterogeneity from Emmanuelle Bouzigon's lab and lead by Raphaël Vernet in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Unraveling shared genetics across asthma subtypes and 81 asthma-related traits

🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

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Curieux Live @curieuxlive.bsky.social · 4d

Sommes-nous tous un peu autistes ?

Réponse avec Thomas Bourgeron, responsable de l’unité de génétique humaine et fonctions cognitives à l’Insitut Pasteur @pasteur.fr à Paris.

Par Florence Heimburger

Avec le soutien du Ministère de la Culture

Sommes-nous tous un peu autistes ? - Curieux!

Depuis vingt ans, les demandes de diagnostic de troubles du neurodéveloppement explosent. Épidémie ou meilleure détection ? Trois questions à Thomas Bourgeron, responsable de l’unité de génétique huma...

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 4d

🏃‍♂️ 60 Pasteuriens sur la ligne de départ des 20km de Paris ce dimanche !

Depuis 17 ans, ils courent pour porter les valeurs de la recherche : persévérance, engagement, dépassement de soi.

#20kmDeParis #Pasteurdon

Photo de groupe des 60 Pasteuriens sur la ligne de départ des 20km de Paris ce dimanche 12 octobre.

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Levayer Lab @levayerr.bsky.social · 5d

Happy to share the last version of our story @currentbiology.bsky.social on the role of interfacial tension in mechanical cell competition led by @leovalon.bsky.social and Alexis Matamoro Vidal
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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 5d

Merci Laurent pour votre soutien 🙏✨

Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 5d

Pour le Pasteurdon, on a donné des appareils photos aux chercheurs 📸👩‍🔬
Voici ce qu’ils ont capturé ! 
#pasteurdon

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 6d

Pour chaque vie, la science agit.
Le Pasteurdon, c’est maintenant !
Soutenez la recherche et celles et ceux qui la font avancer ↘️ pasteurdon.fr
#Pasteurdon

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Camille Berthelot @camilleberthelot.bsky.social · 7d

Incredibly proud of @eulalieliorzou.bsky.social who is receiving the L'Oreal-Unesco Prize for Women in Science for her trailblazing PhD work on menstruation and its associated diseases!

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Six chercheuses pasteuriennes reçoivent le Prix Jeunes Talents France 2025 L’Oréal-UNESCO Pour les Femmes et la Science

Six chercheuses de l’Institut Pasteur viennent de recevoir, le 8 octobre 2025, le Prix Jeunes Talents France 2025 L’Oréal-UNESCO Pour les Femmes et la Science.

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Jean-Yves Tinevez @jytinevez.bsky.social · 7d

Job alert!

We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks?

See also on the forum:
forum.image.sc/t/research-e...

Research engineer in Bioimage Analysis for the researchers of the inIdEx FORMULA

Hi all We are looking for a bioimage analysis to work in an image analysis core facility in beautiful Paris. Can I ask you to share this opportunity with your networks? The position is in the Instit...

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CNRS Biologie @cnrsbiologie.bsky.social · 7d

#ResultatScientifique 🔎| Et si les phages, ces virus des bactéries, pouvaient infecter plusieurs espèces à la fois et remodeler l’écologie microbienne ? 🦠
✍️ Martial Marbouty
📕 @natmicrobiol.nature.com | buff.ly/1R9kqjv

Les phages à large spectre, omniprésents dans les écosystèmes

Les phages, les virus des bactéries, représentent les entités génétiques les plus abondantes de notre environnement.

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Institut Pasteur Education @pasteuredu.bsky.social · 8d

🧬 The MOOC “Human Population and Evolutionary Genetics” starts on October 14th!

👉 bit.ly/4fw3Zje

💀🌍 Where do we come from? What was the migration history of our species? What role does the Neanderthal genome play in our genetic heritage? How has our species adapted to different environments?

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 8d

Many thanks for pointing this out.
The graph shows ARI (Acute Respiratory Infections) rates, which include COVID-19, influenza, and other respiratory viruses - not just COVID rates specifically.
We're updating the caption and article to correct this. Much appreciated for keeping us accurate!

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 8d

🦠 COVID update: "Frankenstein" variant spreading in France

+37% suspected cases but levels are not alarming.
This Omicron sub-variant is more contagious but no more dangerous than predecessors.

"The name Frankenstein seems excessive" - no evidence it's more harmful.

COVID-19: how worried should we be about the Frankenstein variant?

As long as the SARS-CoV-2 virus is still circulating, there is a possibility of new, less intense but persistent waves in France and around the world. In September 2025, the Frankenstein variant, a su...

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Thibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 9d

Latest from ours: www.cell.com/cell-reports...

This is two stories in one: a case study/cautionary tale on developing genetic tools in new organisms, and the first hint at a gene regulatory network for choanoflagellate multicellular development (which turn out to involve a Hippo/YAP/ECM loop!) A 🧵

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Institut Pasteur Education @pasteuredu.bsky.social · 11d

💦🤒The MOOC “Waterborne Infectious Diseases” is open for registration ! Join us ! Share !
👉 bit.ly/46qGaE1
This MOOC explains why water can transmit bacterial, viral and parasitic infections and explores means of control and prevention. With Maël Bessaud, Chloé Dupont, Dominique Franco, F-X Weill.

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Pierre Nicolas BIZAT @pierrenicolasbizat.bsky.social · 10d

I'm very happy to announce that our article has just been published online in Communications Chemistry!

Thank you @hollensteinlab.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to work on this project! 🧬

www.nature.com/articles/s42...

@pasteur.fr @commschem.nature.com

Probing three-dimensional cyclooctatetraene for nucleobase modification in aptamer selection - Communications Chemistry

Chemical modifications of aptamers can enhance binding properties, however, the design of suitable functional groups remains challenging. Here, the authors introduce cyclooctatetraene (COT)-modified nucleotides in SELEX experiments, identifying COT-aptamers with low nM dissociation constants, highlighting the potential of three-dimensional ligands in aptamer discovery.

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Institut Pasteur Education @pasteuredu.bsky.social · 14d

🔬PPU 2025 Call for Candidates - Discover the PhD projects

Today's featured projects: 4 Cell Biology & Infection projects and 2 Parasites & Insect Vectors projects

🗓 Applications deadline: October 20, 2025
📍Program starts: October 2026

Discover all projects & apply now: bit.ly/4nlPz8x

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