ULB study sheds a new light on the stability of the Antarctic ice sheet. It shows for the first time that ice rises (pinning points that keep the floating parts of ice sheets in place) are formed during the transition between ...
Earth Sciences
May 27, 2015
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Research team led by Prof. Cédric Blanpain has identified the mechanisms that regulate mammary gland development. Using a combination of lineage tracing, molecular profiling, single cell sequencing and functional experiments, ...
Cell & Microbiology
May 23, 2018
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Molecules move faster as they get closer to adhesive surfaces, but this effect is not permanent. Such is the puzzling conclusion of a study published in Physical Review Letters, carried out by Simone Napolitano and his colleagues ...
Condensed Matter
Sep 1, 2017
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In adult tissue, the number of cells in tissues and organs remains constant, and any new cells produced by cell division need to be compensated by the loss of other cells. In contrast, during postnatal growth, an excess of ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 29, 2020
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ULB and Gembloux Agro Bio-Tech (ULg) researchers are developing models for predicting carbon levels in Central African forests based on measuring only 5% of all trees. In addition to being a lot more effective, their work ...
Environment
Aug 17, 2015
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Led by François Fuks from the ULB's Laboratory of Cancer Epigenetics and the ULB-Cancer Research Center (U-CRC), researchers have revealed for the first time the key role played by one of the RNA letters, hmC or hydroxymethylation. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 15, 2016
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Under laboratory conditions, mineral growth is a well understood physical process, and has been for a number of decades. In nature however, outside of the controlled confines of a lab, mineral formation is far more complex ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 20, 2016
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A study led by the Laboratory Evolutionary Biology and Ecology of the Université libre de Bruxelles shows that the humivorous French Guianan termite Cavitermes tuberosus routinely practice asexual queen succession (parthenogenesis).
Plants & Animals
Jun 2, 2016
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West Nile virus is an emerging pathogen in Europe and represents a public health threat in previously non-affected European countries. Occurring in a cycle involving transmission between bird and mosquito species, this virus ...
Ecology
Feb 14, 2024
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Led by Benoit Vanhollebeke, WELBIO investigator at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), the Laboratory of Neurovascular Signaling has solved an important enigma of cell signaling related to Wnt signaling specificity.
Cell & Microbiology
Jul 20, 2018
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