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CheckPack: Making your food packaging intelligent

Food waste is still a huge problem in Western society. In the near future, however, intelligent food packaging will be part of the solution. Not only can innovative technologies such as gas sensors and freshness indicators decrease food waste, they can also improve food safety and quality throughout the entire supply chain—from farm to fork. CheckPack, a collaborative fundamental research project headed by Ghent University, explores the possibilities of sensors in food packaging.

Lars Klareskog pushes rheumatology beyond symptomatic treatment

Over the years, the perception of inflammatory diseases has changed drastically. The advent of cytokine inhibitors meant great improvement to many patients, especially those suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. However, these treatments remain symptomatic. Together with Janssen Pharmaceutica, world-renowned rheumatologist Lars Klareskog is ready to take the research and treatment of inflammatory joint disease to the next level.

Sylvie Janssen in Manhattan – Belgian scientist living abroad

Designer yeast: synthetic genome closer to reality

Five entirely synthetic yeast chromosomes were created this year. By 2018 every chromosome is expected to have a synthetic couterpart, resulting in en entirely synthetic genome.

Reversed Brexit: £250 million for Bart De Strooper’s dementia research

Macrophages to protect you from asthma

It has long been known that exposure to microbes can play a protective role against the subsequent development of asthma. Researchers from GIGA of the University of Liège provide an explanation and propose to use this discovery to set up a strategy of cell therapy to treat asthma in humans. Their discovery is published in Immunity.

Partnering for a better mental health

To address the challenges of drug development, solid strategic partnerships are needed. On the Janssen partner day, the company showcased an ongoing partnership with the University of Antwerp in mental health and how this partnership leads to better outcomes.

Interspecies chimeras: One embryo, two species

The creation of an interspecies embryo in the lab sends tremors through the scientific world and beyond. This pig embryo containing human cells presents [...]

Using bacteria to fight obesity and diabetes

Music or neuroscience? Balthazar’s violinist chose music (at least for now)

For Patricia Vanneste, violinist with the popular rock group Balthazar, it wasn’t a choice she made lightly. Patricia has played the violin since she was five. [...]

Life sciences high on the UGent priority list

The choroid plexus: where inflammation meets neurology

We write about change — about impact and consequences, about discoveries and the people behind them. This time, we introduce you to Roosmarijn Vandenbroucke, a discovery scientist at IRC-VIB and a professor at Ghent University. She gives us an eagle’s-eye view of her group’s latest research, which has the potential to impact the management of patients with neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory diseases.

KU Leuven students develop winning device to detect kidney failure

A new level of science: artificial evolution and complex systems

Pierre Collet, professor in Computer Science at Strasbourg University, is one of the key opinion speakers at the BioWin Day 2016. He works on artificial evolution, the human physiome and complex system sciences. He is multitalented and has a clear vision of how science can be accelerated on a global scale. BioVox had the honor to interview him in advance of his speech at BioWin Day.

Arming cells with a cancer vaccine