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A new strategy required in the search for Alzheimer's drugs?
24 May 2013
Alessia Soldano and Bassem Hassan (VIB/KU Leuven) were the first to unravel the function of APPL – the fruit-fly version of APP – in the brain of healthy fruit flies.
New insights contradict promising Alzheimer's research
23 May 2013
Technical comment of Bart De Strooper on the article about bexarotene as a potential Alzheimer’s drug published in Science approximately a year ago.
Faulty energy production in brain cells leads to disorders ranging from Parkinson’s to intellectual disability
16 May 2013
Neuroscientist Patrik Verstreken of VIB (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) and KU Leuven has shown for the first time that dysfunctional mitochondria in brain cells can lead to learning disabilities.
International Conference on Genomics in Europe 2013
15 May 2013
ICG Europe 2013 will feature presentations on next-gen sequencing and advanced bioinformatics technologies, and their growing application in drug discovery and development, disease research, clinical diagnostics.
Core for Life, a new European alliance in biomedical research
14 May 2013
Six European research centres in life sciences share technology and expertise in new Alliance for Core Facilities
Genetic risk factors breast prostate and ovarian cancer exposed
27 March 2013
An international consortium has identified more than 80 regions in our DNA that increase a person’s risk of developing breast, prostate and ovarian cancer.
Fruit flies can help us for the development of improved anesthetics
20 March 2013
General anesthetic result in a loss of consciousness and insensitivity to pain, apparently in the same manner in all animals, from invertebrates to humans.
Marnix Peferoen at the helm of new VIB startup AgroSavfe
15 March 2013
AgroSavfe hopes to provide tools for a safer, more sustainable agriculture while saving farmers and growers money. Below, a conversation with new CEO Marnix Peferoen.
VIB Tech Transfer, Inspired by Science and Society
15 March 2013
What is the added value of tech transfer in biotech? Some of our best academics, entrepreneurs and investors gave their view on its relevance for Flanders.
Diatoms shed light on cell cycle mechanisms
15 March 2013
Marie Huysman (VIB Department of Plant Systems Biology, UGent) and the group of Wim Vyverman (Biology Department of UGent) studied how light can regulate the onset of the cell cycle.
VIB Seminar 2013
15 March 2013
February 6-8, 2013, we once again welcomed VIB’s entire workforce in Blankenberge for our annual VIB Seminar. The objective of the Seminar is to gather all of VIB’S collaborators in one place for an intensive exchange of information.
New angle to combat malignant brain tumors in children
28 February 2013
Peter Carmeliet and his team (VIB-KU Leuven) joined forces with scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital in Harvard to study the role of the placental growth factor (PIGF) in the growth of this brain tumor.
NERF symposium 2013
22 February 2013
The second edition of NERF's annual neurotechnology symposium will focus on large scale approaches/technologies for studying neural circuits, neuromorphics and brain machine interfaces
Cell therapy a little more concrete thanks to VIB research
21 February 2013
VIB scientists associated to the UGent have developed a mouse model that can advance the research on iPS cells to the next step.
Ajit Shetty joins VIB Board of Directors
19 February 2013
VIB welcomes Ajit Shetty, the former head of Janssen Pharmaceutica, on the Board of Directors.

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