Professor Kevin Braeckmans from Ghent University focused the last 10 years on a method for safe engineering of therapeutic cells with photothermal nanofibers. Today, Nature Nanotechnology gives insight in how these biocompatible ...
Bio & Medicine
Oct 22, 2021
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Artificial savanna naturally turns into tropical rainforest when annual burning regimes are discontinued. This is the conclusion of a natural experiment carried out by researchers from the RMCA, UGent, the WWF and INERA in ...
Environment
Apr 25, 2019
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For a long time, scientists assumed that microorganisms, due to their broad distribution patterns, were much less affected by such climatic changes than plants and animals that often present very limited distribution areas. ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Oct 22, 2021
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The attitudes towards the use of insects in animal feed and resulting livestock products are generally favorable, recent scientific research shown.
Other
Apr 15, 2015
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Subsidizing the combustion of biogas is expensive and prevents its use in a more effective way, according to Ghent University (Belgium) scientists in the leading journal Energy & Environmental Sciences. They propose using ...
Environment
May 30, 2018
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Ghent University researchers used computer simulations to discover a new material that efficiently produces chemical building blocks for fuels and plastics without using crude oil.The reaction takes place in a material with ...
Materials Science
Jul 10, 2018
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In a new study that appeared in the renowned journal Systematic Biology, scientists of Ghent University (Belgium), and the University of Basel (Switzerland) have examined the evolution of waterfleas using state-of-the-art ...
Evolution
Dec 28, 2021
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To drive back global warming to below 2°C, carbon storage in soils plays an important part, since soils can store a notable share of the human CO2 emissions.
Environment
Jul 4, 2018
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Research Project ECO2 preStorage of carbon dioxide in the offshore sea bed as part of a Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) strategy is often discussed as a means to reduce further the increase of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. ...
Environment
May 15, 2015
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Researchers of Ghent University investigated how so-called metal-organic frameworks breathe as it gets hotter or colder. Using advanced computer simulations, they found that the temperature at which these materials suddenly ...
Materials Science
Nov 21, 2018
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