AI predicts the taste and quality of beer
Revolutionizing the beverage industry and making better beer
March 26, 2024
Flemish researchers launch OPENPichia, an industrial open access yeast system for the production of proteins
The system has applications in the production of medicines, and edible and industrial proteins, offering a cheaper and qualitative alternative to existing commercial variants
March 5, 2024
Newly discovered protein blocks sleeping sickness
New research by the lab of Prof. Jo Van Ginderachter (VIB Center for Inflammation Research and VUB), in collaboration with Prof. Carl De Trez (VUB) and others, identifies a protein that could pave the way toward drugs against sleeping sickness.
February 28, 2024
Erosion blockade breakthrough: clinical trial signals hope for hand osteoarthritis
Researchers at the Ghent University Hospital, Ghent University, and VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research, show that antibody therapy can be effective against erosive hand osteoarthritis. Using the antibody denosumab leads to bone remodeling and the prevention of erosive joint damage. This is the first evidence that erosive progression can be halted in this disease. The results appear in Nature Medicine.
February 15, 2024
Use it or lose it: How seagrasses conquered the sea
Gene analyses revealing the capacity of marine flowering plants to exist under changing environmental conditions provide clues for the conservation and sustainable use of important ecosystems
January 30, 2024