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It’s the inside that counts: quantitative microbiome profiling
18 March 2018
Many illnesses – like Crohn’s disease – are associated with gut flora alterations. And not only the type of bacteria in our bowels, but also their quantity matters. Introducing Quantitative Microbiome Profiling,
Microbiology throughout VIB
18 March 2018
Reporter on the road: learning from microbes adapting to changing environments
18 March 2018
They often say: “first love never dies.” Well, this might be true, at least for me.
VIB Alumnus Marcelo Vinces explores the intersection of science, education and policy
18 March 2018
As a postdoctoral fellow in Kevin Verstrepen’s lab at VIB-KU Leuven, Marcelo Vinces used brewer’s yeast to study the biological function of highly mutable repetitive ‘junk’ DNA sequences.
New edition of the VIB Times is out! Theme: Microbiology
17 March 2018
What is true for E. Coli is true for the elephant. But we study microbes because elephants don’t make you sick, nor do they make beer
So hot it hurts - Leuven researchers uncover ion channel trio that mediates painful heat sensing
14 March 2018
Researchers at VIB & KU Leuven have uncovered a trio of complementary ion channels in sensory neurons that mediate detection of acute, harmful heat. The seminal findings have been published today in Nature.
Plant-derived volatiles may serve as future antifungals
9 March 2018
Researchers from the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology developed a novel screening method to identify antimicrobial properties of volatile substances. They tested the vapour-phase-mediated activity of 175 essential oils (EOs) and 37 EO components.
VIBes in Biosciences 2017: Science, fun, and heaps of networking
8 March 2018
On September 27-29, over 150 Belgian and international PhD students gathered in Ghent for VIBes in Biosciences, a VIB-funded symposium organized by a team of enthusiastic VIB PhD students.
Alzheimer’s researchers win world’s top brain research prize
6 March 2018
Four neuroscientists working in the UK, Belgium and Germany have won the world’s most valuable prize for brain research. The 2018 Brain Prize is awarded to Bart De Strooper (London and Leuven), Michel Goedert, Christian Haass and John Hardy.
Trapping multidrug-resistant bacteria in molecular glue
28 February 2018
Researchers at VIB, KU Leuven and UZ Leuven devised a novel approach to develop antibacterial drugs. With antibiotic resistance on the rise worldwide, such new drugs are urgently needed.
Tobacco for Health with New Plant Breeding Techniques
26 February 2018
The EU-funded NEWCOTIANA project combines several new plant breeding techniques to produce medical and cosmetic products in tobacco plants. Alain Goossens and his team (VIB-UGent) are involved in this new international research and innovation action
Reporter on the road: an ode to the unsung heroes of science
24 February 2018
Despite the odd professor who, in a mid-(science)-life crisis, grabs the pipette once again, they are not responsible for the enormous load of hands-on work that goes into everyday scientific research.
Trust me, I’m a postdoc
23 February 2018
Despite the diversity of fields in which they work, VIB’s postdocs also have a lot in common with each other. That’s why connecting on both a scientific and a personal level with your colleague, yields nothing but advantages.
Scientists discover how to increase both sugar yield and biomass production in the model plant Arabidopsis
23 February 2018
To ease the industrial processing of plant biomass into energy, plants are engineered to contain less lignin. Unfortunately, this intervention typically leads to reduced yield. Researchers at the VIB-UGent now discovered a way to overcome this problem
Counteracting the effects of TNF receptor-1 has therapeutic potential in Alzheimer’s disease
22 February 2018
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia and increasing evidence has shown that neuroinflammation is an important and early hallmark of the pathogenesis.

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