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“Our neurogenetics legacy continues, but we’ve also made room for new directions”
Neuroscience, Interview

“Our neurogenetics legacy continues, but we’ve also made room for new directions”

The VIB-UAntwerp Center for Molecular Neurology realigns along double axes of neurogenetics and neuroimmunology

“We had to rethink everything: the samples, the systems, the scale”
Tech Ecosystem

“We had to rethink everything: the samples, the systems, the scale”

The 25-year journey from Microarray Facility to cutting-edge Nucleomics Core

"Find your niche and believe in it"
Cancer Biology, Immunity & Inflammation, Interview

"Find your niche and believe in it"

A conversation with experts Bart Lambrecht and Diether Lambrechts on immune niches in cancer and inflammation

"The next step was to see if changing the intestinal bacteria composition could have a positive effect on Parkinson's disease"
Immunity & Inflammation, Interview

"The next step was to see if changing the intestinal bacteria composition could have a positive effect on Parkinson's disease"

On Parkinson's disease, the gut microbiome, and fecal microbiota transplants

Meet Joana Pereira
Computational Biology, Interview

Meet Joana Pereira

Joana joins VIB.AI: the Center for AI & Computational Biology as new PI

“The most important applications of protein sequencing will be the ones we have no idea about today”
Interview

“The most important applications of protein sequencing will be the ones we have no idea about today”

Giovanni Maglia reflects on the future of next-generation proteomics and the challenges of de novo protein sequencing 

“Sometimes you don’t realize how much you have to share until someone asks the right questions”
Tech Ecosystem, Interview

“Sometimes you don’t realize how much you have to share until someone asks the right questions”

Last November, Audrey Salles of Institut Pasteur travelled from Paris to Ghent to meet with Saskia Lippens, VIB’s Deputy Technology Director. Officially here to shadow, Salles and Lippens quickly agreed to take full advantage of the opportunity to turn it into a two-way information exchange and learning experience.

Peering into the brain with ultrasound
Neuroscience

Peering into the brain with ultrasound

The Urban lab at NERF is transforming brain imaging through advanced functional ultrasound (fUS). Their latest series of studies reveals powerful new techniques to precisely map, visualize, and decode neural activity. Could these advances usher fUS into everyday neuroscience and clinical practice?

The remarkable ambition to map 37,200 billion cells in the human body
Immunity & Inflammation

The remarkable ambition to map 37,200 billion cells in the human body

More than 3,000 scientists are busy building an atlas of every cell in our body. This should point the way to new medical breakthroughs. Like in a lab in Ghent, where they want to grow immune cells with an artificial organ to fight cancer.

SParrOW takes flight
Tech Ecosystem, Deep Dive

SParrOW takes flight

A one-two punch of in-house innovation and adoption for flexible spatial transcriptomics data analysis

Meet Sammy Pontrelli, who looks at marine microbes to learn about carbon sequestration
Microbiology, Interview

Meet Sammy Pontrelli, who looks at marine microbes to learn about carbon sequestration

Sammy joins the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology as group leader and KU Leuven as Assistant Professor

Transforming scientific discoveries into biotech innovations
Immunity & Inflammation, Tech Ecosystem

Transforming scientific discoveries into biotech innovations

How VIB’s Innovation & Business team and argenx joined forces to tackle respiratory diseases

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