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At the beginning of 2023, the UCLouvain brewing unit (LIBST - INBr) is proud to present the new brewing and bottling line that will be available for students and research from the next academic year. This ambitious project is the result of a great collaboration between the faculty of...

Since 1998, François Chaumont has developed and directed a research group aiming at answering hypotheses related to the function and regulation of plant aquaporins. In addition, at Marc Boutry retirement in 2016, he joined Catherine Navarre, a senior scientist, in the supervision of research...

By combining the tools of nanotechnology and microbiology, the teams of Yves Dufrêne (FNRS, UCLouvain) and Jérôme Nigou (CNRS) have unraveled the sophisticated mechanism by which mycobacterial pathogens causing tuberculosis evade the immune system of the human host. In the future, these findings...

  Bicuspid Aortic Valve (or BAV) is the most common cardio-vascular malformation. In BAV, the valve between the left ventricle of the heart and the aorta is composed of two leaflets instead of three in the normal conditional. Initially asymptomatic, BAV can lead to severe complications...