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September 10, 2019
Body signals: sensing and measurement
UCLouvain researchers are shaking up research in psychology. Interoceptive awareness, the ability to feel the inner states involved in emotional experiences, may have been measured a bit too clumsily over the past 30 years. Examining whether particularly ‘interoceptive’ people could manage...
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July 03, 2019
Science and health
Paediatric cancers: a small step towards targeted therapy
Today, cancer research is advancing by leaps and bounds for adults. Not so for children, whose cancers are much rarer. Anabelle Decottignies and her team at the de Duve Institute have found a potential target that would kill cancer cells without harming other cells. They have just published...
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June 27, 2019
Science and health
A new molecular target in the fight against cancer
On 7 May, Dr Anabelle Decottignies, a bioengineer by training, an FNRS Senior Research Associate and the head of a research team at the de Duve Institute, received the Allard-Janssen Prize in support of her applied cancer research. What does her research contribute to the fight against...
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June 26, 2019
HR: a changing profession
A team from the UCLouvain Louvain School Management has published a white paper on human resources management in the non-profit sector. These poorly known jobs are at the forefront of understanding current and future transformations of work.
Human resources managers (HRMs) have a huge...
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June 25, 2019
Genetic architecture of kidney diseases
The research of Prof. Olivier Devuyst (IREC) aims to improve the efficiency of dialysis through the study of genetic renal diseases. His work has been rewarded twice in recent weeks.
Without kidneys, the fundamental balance of the body is no longer assured. Organs too often forgotten,...
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