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December 21, 2016
Memories of the Second World War: Which ones survive?
What memories do the people who lived through the Second World War pass on to their children and grandchildren? Two UCL researchers studied several Belgian families to find out.
The humanities and social sciences address questions of intergenerational memory. Olivier Luminet and Aurélie...
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December 05, 2016
Actualités
When bacteria fight back
Some bacteria that cause disease in humans are becoming more resistant to antobiotics—so resistant that some experts see ‘antibiotic resistant’ infections as tomorrow’s plague. Fortunately, research is progressing, particularly at the UCL de Duve Institute.
Antibiotics are probably the...
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November 10, 2016
Learning how to grow symbiotic fungi
UCL’s Mycology Laboratory is a world leader in the in vitro breeding of a certain fungus of great value to agriculture and research. Each year, Prof. Stéphane Declerck’s team shares its knowledge with people who come to UCL from all over the world.
Truffles, boletes and other...
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November 10, 2016
Student mission to Mars
‘Mars to earth, come in, Earth.’ UCL students can pronounce these words every April when they take off for the red planet—so to speak—via Mars Society’s Mission to Mars project.
Space travel in the 21st century will revolve more than ever around the red planet. European and US programmes...
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November 10, 2016
Towards a treatment for venous malformation?
Angiomas, vascular malformations that can provoke numerous symptoms, afflict approximately 6,000 people in Belgium. For 20 years, Dr Laurence Boon, coordinator of the Centre for Vascular Anomalies of UCL’s Saint-Luc University Hospitals, and Miikka Vikkula, a researcher at UCL’s de Duve...
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