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May 13, 2020
"Velcro" on cancer cells
Press release - UCLouvain research
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To form metastases, cancer cells must be able to migrate. But cancer cells are connected to each other by ‘Velcro’
University of Louvain (UCLouvain) researchers have...
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April 30, 2020
Olivier De Schutter, United Nations Special Rapporteur
Press release
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On 1 May UCLouvain Professor Olivier De Schutter becomes United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
His priorities: social protection for all; a just transition; and involving people living...
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January 23, 2020
Preventing metastasis by stopping cancer cells from...
Press release - UCLouvain research
In brief (18 seconds of reading):
Olivier Feron, a UCLouvain researcher, studies how cancer spreads through the body via metastasis
His major discovery was that cancer cells multiply by using lipids as food. His...
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December 16, 2019
Immunotherapy: a promising alternative
Press release - UCLouvain research
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Since 2004, Sophie Lucas, a researcher at the UCLouvain de Duve Institute, has been studying the immune responses that cancer patients can develop against their own tumour
She is...
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November 18, 2019
UCLouvain connects our smartphones to the Internet
Press release - UCLouvain Research
In brief:
1 in 8 smartphones in the world uses a UCLouvain technology
It combines separate Internet access networks, fixed and mobile, to allow a stable (uninterrupted), fast and secure connection
Practical...
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