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Discover the latest insights from VIB's Tech Watch team on groundbreaking life science technologies shaping the future. Explore trends like synthetic biology and dynamic single-cell readouts that are set to revolutionize research in 2025.

Emerging Life Science Technologies: Trends for 2025

The VIB Tech Watch team on Trends in Technology for 2025

“We’ll see a shift from exploring what exists, to creating what’s possible”

As we’re counting down to the new year, it’s time to reflect, take stock, and make plans. Which new and emerging tools are bound to take the research world by storm in the next year? What new developments are here to stay, and which ones will rapidly be taken over?

A collaborative fellowship program offering cutting-edge career development for scientists in research infrastructure

Advancing career pathways in research infrastructure with ARISE2

VIB is excited to announce its participation in ARISE2, the European career accelerator designed to foster the growth and expertise of scientists working within research infrastructures. This MSCA-funded postdoctoral fellowship program, launched by EMBL, aims to cultivate the next generation of technophile infrastructure scientists through an intensive three-year fellowship. ARISE2 not only provides specialized training in advanced technology development but also supports interdisciplinary collaboration, professional skills building, and tailored career support.

Explore VIB’s state-of-the-art single-cell neuroscience research, where we uncover the complex brain structure, study the aging brain, and understand brain disorders - all to find solutions for some of humanity's most pressing medical challenges.

Advancements in single-cell neuroscience at VIB

Exploring the advancements in single-cell neuroscience at VIB

Revealing the brain’s secrets, one cell at a time

The human brain is an enigma. This complex organ governs our thoughts, emotions, and actions, yet much of its inner workings remain mysterious. We still struggle to understand how brain diseases develop and how to effectively prevent or treat them. Fortunately, neuroscience paces ahead. The latest step forward? Single-cell research.

From Alzheimer's disease to cancer biology and plant systems, gain insights into the applications and transformative impact of spatial omics at VIB.

Unraveling the power of spatial omics in biotech research

Next to machine learning, spatial omics is becoming one of the hottest topic in biotech!

Deciphering the hidden language of life

Curious to know what being a VIB tech transfer professional entails? We talked to Laura Lapienyte, the business development manager for VIB’s neuroscience centers from Lithuania. She has a PhD in pancreatic cancer and recently was awarded the AUTM Volunteer Service Award. Find out more about her exciting career, the challenges and fulfilling aspects of her job, and her advice for scientists who want to pursue a career in this field. Plus, what she would do if given a sabbatical year. Let’s dive in!

A Day in the Life of a VIB Tech Transfer Expert

Curious to know what being a VIB tech transfer professional entails? We talked to Laura Lapienyte, the business development manager for VIB’s...

An interview in honor of the International day for Women and Girls in Science

Tharshana Stephen from the VIB Flow Core Leuven takes the stage

VIB Bioimaging experts address the difficulties of reproducibility by turning metadata redundancy into an error correction tool, with a little help from AI. 

Lessons from space communication and AI tackle the reproducibility crisis  

One of the core principles of the scientific method is the validation of results. To achieve this, scientists would ideally run their tests or experiments again to see whether the results the first time weren't a coincidence. Even better would be if other scientists could independently validate the results. That way, we can rule out that there are specific (lab) conditions that skew the results. The independent replication of scientific results is the strongest clue we have that a finding reveals something true about reality.

The FabLab collaboration with KU Leuven allows VIB researchers to assess the potential of microfluidics for their projects.

Exploring the world of microfluidics at VIB

Imagine a world where a drop of liquid holds the key to unlocking mysteries at the cellular level or where complex biochemical reactions occur within a network of channels smaller than a human hair. This world is called microfluidics.

Looking back at twenty years at VIB: Eef Parthoens in the Spotlight

A story from the Bio-Imaging core

Eef Parthoens is a familiar face within the Bio-Imaging core to many colleagues. What you may not know is that Eef has been working at VIB for two decades. To celebrate this milestone, we’re pleased to give her the floor. We delve deeper into her career and her role within the Core.

For many organizations, automation is the holy grail of process optimization. At VIB Technologies, the potential of robotics has become more apparent over the years as well. To save time on labor-intensive and repetitive processes such as sample preparation, VIB’s Core Facilities have recently started to rely on Opentrons. The implementation of these multipurpose robots has enabled the Cores to make strides in time efficiency and data reproducibility, with decreased waiting times for end users as a result.

Leveling up throughput and reproducibility at VIB’s Core Facilities with Opentrons

For many organizations, automation is the holy grail of process optimization. At VIB Technologies, the potential of robotics has become more...

Insights from VIB's Revolutionizing Next Generation Sequencing conference

The future of next-generation sequencing: Interview with Shawn Levy of Element Biosciences

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The strengths of the VIB Nanobody & Protein Cores

To the Core of the matter

To get to the heart of biology, we need to zoom in. Beyond tissues, beyond cells, down to the level of proteins. These proteins are the tools, encoded in our genome, that make life work. Advances in life sciences research now allow us to refine these tools for our own purposes. This is what the VIB Nanobody and Protein Cores do. These two Core facilities stand out from the others by offering “production-based” molecular services. Their extensive experience and state-of-the-art technology allow them to produce their respective, often protein-based, products efficiently. Their close partnership allows them to build on each other’s work, which makes them both prominent players in the field of applied and basic protein biology.

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