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Anabelle Decottignies’s team just discovered that melanoma doesn’t develop like most cancers, making it more difficult to treat. For more than 15 years, Anabelle Decottignies, FNRS Research Fellow at the de Duve Institute, has been interested in telomeres, structures found at the ends of...

Using a PET scan to analyse a tumour leads to better treatment of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer of the white blood cells known as lymphocytes. The technique has been studied and validated by the team of Professor Marc André, head of the haematology department at CHU UCL Namur at Godinne....

While they make up the majority during their studies, the proportion of women decreases as the academic career progresses. A consortium of European universities, including UCL, is studying this ‘leaky pipeline’ phenomenon. Here are some of their conclusions. In Belgium, female university...

A team of UCL researchers recently discovered the function of Nit1, a metabolic repair enzyme. A lack of it could cause a metabolic disorder. Our cells use oxygen to burn sugars and fat in order to generate ATP, the energy they need to function. ‘That’s the positive side of oxygen’, says UCL...