News for p2
September 11, 2020
New immunotherapy to beat cancer
Sophie Lucas (UCLouvain de Duve Institute) and her team succeeded in neutralising a molecule that blocks the immune system against cancer. UCLouvain scientists discovered that this new immunotherapy increases the action of another well-known but not always effective...
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July 01, 2020
VIVES III: a new European inter-university fund of €32M...
The UCLouvain created, through its technology transfer office Sopartec, a new European university fund of €32m, VIVES Inter-University Fund. Its ambition? Accelerate the transformation of research into a societal benefit. The fund offers a unique ecosystem with incubators and...
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June 22, 2020
Click… Resistant bacteria caught in the act !
As humanity fights against the coronavirus, the battle against antibiotic resistant bacteria continues. Scientists at UCLouvain have succeeded in capturing unique images of protein soldiers that help bacteria resist drugs. This discovery is published in the prestigious scientific...
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June 22, 2020
When planting trees threatens the forest
Campaigns to plant huge numbers of trees could backfire, according to a new study by researchers of several universities including UCLouvain1 that is the first to rigorously analyze potential effects of subsidies in such schemes.
The analysis, published in Nature...
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January 23, 2020
Preventing metastasis by stopping cancer cells from...
Olivier Feron, a UCLouvain researcher, studies how cancer spreads through the body via metastasis. His major discovery was that cancer cells multiply by using lipids as food. His latest discovery, published in the scientific journal Nature Communications, is that lipid storage promotes...
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