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A genetic determinant of bicuspid aortic valve revealed

  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...
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ARC, two research projects selected at LIBST !

NanoViroStaph is a newly funded Concerted Research Actions (ARC) project led by A. Gillis (ELI), D. Alsteens (LIBST) and Y. Dufrêne (LIBST) that will start on October 2023. Bacteriophages have great therapeutic potential as an alternative to classical antimicrobials to fight pathogens such...
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DNA repair during nonreductional meiosis in the asexual...

Bdelloid rotifers are tiny, but exceptional animals in two respects: they are asexual, evolving without males since more than 60 million years, and they can survive to extreme stress such as irradiation doses equivalent to more than 100 times the dose released by of the bomb of Hiroshima. In...
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Meet Françoise Gofflot's Lab

Summary-Heading In 2008, Françoise Gofflot joined The Institute of Life Science, now LIBST, with a "Mandat d’impulsion Ulysse (FNRS)" to establish the TeamGofflot in close partnership with colleagues of what is now the AMCB group. Building upon a strong background in developmental biology,...
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Alzheimer standard grant for Melissa Page

Melissa Page (BNTE) was awarded by the the Alzheimer’s Research Foundation (Fondation Recherche Alzheimer) in support of her research on cellular ageing in the brain and its potential contribution to the establishment and progression of Alzheimer’s disease. This three year funded project will...
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