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Flemish food intervention study FLORA is investigating whether personalised nutritional advice has an effect on health and intestinal microbiota
15 November 2019
Today marks the start of a recruitment drive to find participants for a Flemish research project: FLORA. The project wants to investigate whether personalised digital nutritional advice can have a positive effect on health and intestinal microbiota.
VIB and BGI Announce Strategic Partnership for Excellence in Science and Leadership in Technology to Explore Opportunities
14 November 2019
BGI Group and VIB BGI have now agreed to share knowledge, technology, and expertise in order to accelerate progress in genomic research and enabling technologies in a broad scientific field including health care and agriculture.
Two VIB-UGent scientists recognized as EMBO Young Investigators
13 November 2019
In 2020, Prof. Bert De Rybel (VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology) & Prof. Martin Guilliams (VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research) will join Young Investigators Programme elected by EMBO.
Rocking (Roquin) the boat: Research on hemophagocytic syndrome uncovers new gene regulating the human immune system
12 November 2019
Researchers from the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research and the Ghent University hospital identified a genetic cause of hemophagocytic syndrome, a rare immune disease characterized by a dangerous and uncontrolled overproduction of cytokines.
Who is hitching a ride on the house fly?
8 November 2019
A team of researchers from the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology found that house flies are real taxi’s for microbes. And, they do not care much about which passengers they are taking along for the ride.
NextGenQBio: A better view on cells
6 November 2019
On November 6th, VIB and KU Leuven officially opened the NextGenQBio platform. This state-of-the-art project was granted to VIB & the Stem Cell Institute Leuven within purview of the Hercules Foundation financing for large scale research infrastructure.
Studying the human brain in mice
30 October 2019
The human brain is a tricky study subject. Brain scans are still limited in resolution and the knowledge they can provide, and in vitro approaches are not yet able to fully replicate the important micro-environment of brain cells.
VIB researchers join 3TR, the largest-ever Innovative Medicine Initiative 2 (IMI2) Immunology Project
29 October 2019
This large-scale public-private research initiative will provide new insights into the response and non-response to treatment within seven different immune-mediated diseases.
The secret of classic Belgian beers? Medieval super yeasts!
21 October 2019
A team of scientists, led by Kevin Verstrepen (VIB-KU-Leuven) & Steven Maere (VIB-UGent), has discovered that some of the most renowned classic Belgian beers, including Gueuze and Trappist ales, are fermented with a rare form of hybrid yeasts.
Successful microbes: Biotech Day 2019
20 October 2019
Despite the gloomy weather, biotechdag 2019 was a great success. A large number of visitors enjoyed a range of presentations and activities that provided a glimpse into the marvelous world of microbes.
Zooming in on Excellence
16 October 2019
VIB and Nikon are happy to announce that they are extending their partnership, as the VIB-KU Leuven BioImaging Core is becoming a Nikon Center of Excellence. This is good news for the scientific community that has a need for excellent imaging equipment.
A CRISPR Knockout
10 October 2019
A team from the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology, led by Thomas Jacobs, Moritz Nowack, and Tom Beeckman has devised a CRISPR-based tissue-specific knockout system, CRISPR-TSKO.
Quickscan 2019
9 October 2019
VIB's scientific publications 3th quarter 2019
ERC’s research funding is really ‘bottom up’
7 October 2019
On October 3rd, an ERC delegation visited the lab of ERC grantee Kevin Verstrepen to learn more about his work funded by the ERC grant YEASTMEMORY.
Immune cells in the spotlight
3 October 2019
VIB and VUB researchers involved in Innovative Medicines Initiative that awards 30 Million Euro grant supporting research into novel tracer strategies for clinical imaging of immune cell dynamics.

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