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The Center for Drug Design and Discovery (CD3), a leading organization specialized in translating innovative biomedical research into life-saving medicines, today announced the successful completion of CD3 IV, raising €70.5 million. This…

Now that registrations for this academic year have been closed, KU Leuven is taking stock. In total, around 61,000 students registered, approximately the same as last year. The number of generation students exceeds the 9,000 mark for the…

Researchers at KU Leuven have shown that a treatment with a cocktail of two drugs not only rejuvenates the brains of old killifish, but also protects against future diseases or injuries. The researchers also unraveled the processes…

Bowel problems are an early symptom of both Parkinson's disease and irritable bowel syndrome. The protein LRRK2 (leucine-rich repeat kinase 2) has been genetically linked to both conditions, but the exact mechanism was unknown until now.…

The chemical compound BPA (bisphenol A), commonly used in plastic products, has been controversial for years due to its adverse health effects. KU Leuven researchers have developed a BPA alternative with similar functionality that has no…

Loss of nerve cells can take place not only in the brain, but also in the (lesser known) nervous system in the intestine. A new study, conducted at KU Leuven and published in Nature , shows that specialized immune cells shape this nervous…

Sports scientists from KU Leuven will visit the Tour de France during the second day of rest. They test the Soudal Quick-Step riders on site and analyze the physical impact of weeks of effort. On the basis of blood and urine samples, they…

Museums, heritage conservators, private art collectors… they are all concerned about the risks of a poor storage climate for their collection. The new KU Leuven spin-off CHARP wants to unburden them with innovative monitoring software and…

Writer and performer Maud Vanhauwaert is KU Leuven's new writer-in-residence for the academic year 2023-2024. She follows in the footsteps of Bart Moeyaert, Annelies Verbeke and Saskia De Coster. As the university's in-house writer,…

Today's atomic clocks already keep time very precisely, but a nuclear clock could do even better. Such a clock is based on a special, unique form of the element thorium. In an experiment at the European particle lab CERN in Geneva,…