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Cultured meat, plant-based patties and bug burgers: VCs are backing protein alternatives
When it comes to food, our key sources of nutrition haven’t changed much in the last ten thousand years. Though hyped-up food trends and diets come and go, our ancestors established the status quo…
Stellar year for Belgian biotech
Belgium has once again strengthened its position as Europe's biotech leader. Today, Belgian biotech companies comprise 23 percent of the total market value of all public European biotech companies…
Holographic imaging technology shines a light on cells
Have you ever considered how scientists are able to count transparent cells in a see-through solution? Traditional methods involve dyes, microscopes, time and effort. Now there’s a new technology …
Deadly mosquitoes are invading Europe
Due to climate change, two species of tropical mosquitoes are spreading into Europe at increasing rates. Their presence is linked to a range of tropical viruses, including dengue, yellow fever, Ch…
Hydrogen gas panel set to revolutionize clean energy production
Bioscience engineers at KU Leuven have created a record-breaking hydrogen gas panel. The panel is capable of producing 250 liters of hydrogen gas per day; enough that just 20 panels could provide …
Closing the gender gap in biotech funding
Companies with a good gender balance consistently outperform those with only men in their management teams. Yet despite this, start-ups with female founders and management team members are consist…
Battling antibiotic resistance: are we ready for a bacteriophage revival?
The discovery of antibiotics fundamentally changed healthcare in the 20th century. Deadly infections suddenly became treatable and millions of lives were saved. But excessive antibiotic use in bot…
Women in STEM: fixing the leaky pipeline
Happy International Women’s Day! This year, in honor of the day, we’ve decided to highlight an important and personal topic: the lack of women in STEM. The problem is complicated and leads to a lo…
Orphan CNS diseases receive attention with new Minoryx site in Belgium
The Spanish start-up Minoryx Therapeutics recently opened a subsidiary in Belgium to further their research on treatments for rare and orphan diseases. Co-founder and CEO Marc Martinell spoke to B…
Life after a PhD: alternatives to academia
Having finished a PhD in life sciences can often leave you wondering: what’s next? The classic question is often “academia or industry?”, with a lot of preconceptions made about both career paths.…
AuXin Surgery Announces the Launch of its new CADISS System for Selective Dissection in Surgery
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 7 February 2019 – AuXin Surgery, a medical device company, announces that it has obtained CE Class III certification for its novel CADISS® System for the surgery of chro…
Pharmafluidics’ new product launch steers ‘on-a-chip’ separations of complex biological samples to new heights
PharmaFluidics NV is a game-changing innovator in the field of analytical chromatography. The company has devised a fundamentally new way of performing separations by creating nano-LC columns on a…
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