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The extensive study was published in this week's edition of the leading scientific journal JAMA Neurology.

Microbial geneticists at KU Leuven have unravelled how a specific type of protein eliminates the hospital bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Belgian, English and Australian scientists are calling on the Australian authorities to review their decision to introduce the carp herpes virus as a way to combat the common carp having colonised the country's rivers.

Introduction: This is counterintuitive to expectations: a negative effect of the virus on its host potentially diminishes its own spreading capability. To understand and predict the spread of infectious diseases from animal hosts to humans, it is essential to know how parasite transmission relates to host density.

Introduction: Researchers at UAntwerp/UHasselt call for 'social distancing' to contain flu epidemic.

Researchers of Vrije Universiteit Brussel developed a new type of fluorescent contrast liquid for use in cancer surgery. This allows the surgeon to carry out operations in a more precise and accurate way. Both patient's survival rates and quality of life should improve significantly as a result of the new technique.

Human cells use a timer to divide: each cell gets at least 30 minutes to divide its genetic material between the nuclei of two daughter cells. Researchers at KU Leuven have unravelled how this timer is switched on and off. Their findings open up perspectives for the treatment of cancer, as keeping the timer going would stop cancer cells from dividing.

"How many different cell types are there in the human body? And how do these differences develop? Nobody really knows," says Professor Stein Aerts from KU Leuven/VIB. But thanks to a new method developed by his team, that may be about to change. Even though each of the cells in our body carries the exact same DNA sequence, there's a huge variety of cell types and functions.

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disorder that leads to progressive muscle weakness and paralysis.

10 years of the ERC + 30 grants for UCL = €39 million On 21 March, the European Research Council (ERC) celebrates its tenth anniversary.