Mosquito-borne viral diseases such as dengue, Zika and chikungunya are spreading to new regions as the climate becomes warmer. A new study from Karolinska Institutet and Institut Pasteur, published in Nature Communications, shows that a newly developed blood test can distinguish between similar viruses and thereby contribute to better surveillance of how these infections spread.

Unified bacterial strain taxonomies are needed for coherent communication of findings in microbiological research. This Essay provides an overview of a novel bacterial strain taxonomy and describes ho...

An OpenAI model solved the 80-year-old unit distance problem, disproving a major conjecture in discrete geometry and marking a milestone in AI-driven mathematics.

Arboviruses often co-circulate, but cross-reactivity hampers serological diagnostics. Here, the authors paired multiplex serology with competitive immunoassays and Bayesian modelling to quantify antib...

The Institut Pasteur is launching an international call to recruit new junior research group leaders leveraging cutting-edge transdisciplinary approaches to exploring infectious diseases, host-microbe...

Disinformation campaign may have triggered “brutal” shutdown of mosquito lab

New fathers who want to bond with their babies are treated in a derisory way in the UK – and that harms us all

The Institut Pasteur will host an international conference on June 12-13, 2025 addressing the potentially unprecedented risks of mirror life, organized in partnership with the Mirror Biology Dialogues...

Malakit had a significant impact on malaria transmission by improving the access to treatment for the population working in illegal gold mining in French Guiana. Building on the regional efforts of th...

Job description We are recruiting postdocs to contribute to research projects in the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases Unit, at Institut Pasteur in Paris. The candidates will be expected t...

We’d like to shine a spotlight on Dr. Giovanna Barba-Spaeth, Coordinator of the Yellow4FLAVI Horizon Europe funded project and Head of the Flavimmunity Group at Institut Pasteur. 1️⃣ What is your back...

Author summary Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which spread viruses like dengue and Zika, inhabit different environments within Africa. Ancestral forms of Ae. aegypti occupy forested habitats, while domesti...

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Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) presents a significant health risk to young infants and substantially burdens already stretched health systems every winter. Ireland launched a RSV immunisation pathf...

Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of...

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