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Bertanne Visser was recently appointed FNRS research associate at the Earth and Life Institute, gaining the opportunity to continue her research on lipid synthesis in certain wasps during evolution. It’s a trait which, contrary to what might be believed, has never been lost. When a...

How can we talk rationally about migration? That’s the question addressed by Thomas Baudin, an associate professor at both UCLouvain's Institute for Economic and Social Research (IRES) and the IESEG School of Management, and Simone Moriconi, IESEG associate professor and Lille Economics and...

Do you know what COST is? It’s a funding programme for connecting research and innovation communities in Europe. At UCLouvain, two researchers, Marthe Nyssens and Min Reuchamps currently benefit from it. In September 2019, the call for the next wave of funding opens! We met two former...

A recent publication by UCLouvain’s Prof. Greet Kerckhofs reports on a new method for observing mouse placentas during growth: a three-dimensional, non-invasive and quantitative virtual histology(1). This is a breakthrough that makes Prof. Kerckhofs a pioneer of 3D histology of biological...