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Beyond the electron cryo-microscope
15 December 2018
The ‘VIB-VUB facility for Bio Electron Cryogenic Microscopy’ hosts the newest kind of JEOL electron cryogenic microscope. The guest of honor at the inauguration was none other than one of the brains behind this technology: Richard Henderson.
Aelin Therapeutics pursues new cancer drugs
11 December 2018
Aelin Therapeutics announced that it has been awarded close to 1M EUR in non-dilutive funding from VLAIO to explore its proprietary Pept-inTM technology for high-value targets implicated in oncology
ERC Consolidator Grant for Sophie Janssens
10 December 2018
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Sophie Janssens, group leader at the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research, a consolidator grant. These grants are rewarded to scientists who already showed that they are able to run their own lab
Reporter on the road: from cellfies to sciencegram
8 December 2018
Social media has changed our lives, for better or worse. But what about our professional lives? Can we embrace social media and use it to our professional advantage?
Whole-brain imaging of mice during behavior
7 December 2018
The team of Botond Roska at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research collaborated with Alan Urban (NERF) to demonstrate how functional ultrasound imaging can yield high-resolution, unbiased, brain-wide activity maps of behaving mice
Belgian team secures million-dollar funding from Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
5 December 2018
Today, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), the philanthropic endeavor led by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his partner Priscilla Chan, announced the launch of its Neurodegeneration Challenge Network.
Where do rats think they are?
4 December 2018
The rat in a maze may be one of the most classic research motifs in brain science, but a new innovation by an international collaboration of scientists shows just how far such experiments are still pushing the cutting edge of technology and neuroscience.
Puzzling together plant evolution through art, and vice versa
3 December 2018
When he’s not in the lab, chances are you’ll find Ive De Smet in a museum. The VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology group leader has found a peculiar link between his research work and art and turned it into a unique hobby.
Steroid synthesis discovery could rewrite the textbooks
26 November 2018
Researchers from the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, the University of Technology Sydney Climate Change Cluster & the University of Queensland have discovered a new central enzyme in the steroid biosynthesis pathway in some modern organisms
Revolutionary molecular diagnostic cancer test
24 November 2018
Biocartis launched a fast, accurate msi assay on its idylla™ platform, offering the Potential to predict effective cancer treatment options.
Better understanding of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) regulation can lead to new insights into disease development
22 November 2018
The team of Joris Messens at the VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology provided new insights into the regulation of an important intracellular messenger molecule whose dysregulation has been linked to the development of several diseases, including cancer.
Scientists shed new light on infection process of the gastrointestinal pathogen C. difficile
21 November 2018
Scientists from the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research identified mechanisms by which the bacterial pathogen Clostridium difficile kills intestinal epithelial cells (IECs), thus destroying the protective mucosal barrier of the intestinal tract
How your moving brain sees the world
20 November 2018
In a new study, scientists from NERF (Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders) uncover that the processing of visual information in the brain is indeed modulated by our own behavior.
Identification of LZTR1 leads to novel insights into RAS-driven diseases
16 November 2018
Michail Steklov, Francesca Baietti, and colleagues from the Anna Sablina lab (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology) identified LZTR1 as an evolutionarily conserved component of the RAS pathway.
Patchy distribution of joint inflammation resolved
15 November 2018
Chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and spondylo-arthritis (SpA) are chronic disabling diseases that have a poor outcome on loco-motoric function, if left untreated. RA en SpA affect each about 1% of the population.

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