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Jan 13, 2025 | 
clarkesworldmagazine.com | Gunnar De Winter |Kate Baker
Skip to content Podcast, Original Fiction TEXT VERSION Our second podcast for January is “Child of the Mountain” written by Gunnar De Winter and read by Kate Baker.
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Jan 1, 2025 | 
clarkesworldmagazine.com | Gunnar De Winter
3890 words, short story Chime waits until the vultures have picked the cold flesh from the bones. When she hears the bald birds snap at each other, she turns around and walks toward the stone altar, whirling her wooden rattle against a backdrop of snow-covered mountain peaks.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
press.vib.be | Gunnar De Winter
Brussels, 9 December 2024 – Therapeutic mRNAs offer great potential as a versatile and precise tool against cancer and other diseases. However, the therapeutic effectiveness is limited by the poor translation uptake of naked mRNA. To circumvent this challenge, researchers from VIB, VUB, Ghent University, and eTheRNA Immunotherapies developed an immunotherapeutic platform based on lipid-based nanoparticles (LNPs).
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
press.vib.be | Gunnar De Winter
Brussel, 9 December 2024 – Therapeutische mRNA's zijn beloftevol als veelzijdig en nauwkeurig hulpmiddel tegen kanker en verschillende andere ziekten. Maar naakt mRNA is kwetsbaar, en dit beperkt de doeltreffendheid van deze nieuwe therapieën. Om deze gevoeligheid te verminderen, hebben onderzoekers van VIB, VUB, UGent en eTheRNA Immunotherapies een immunotherapeutisch platform ontwikkeld. Het kapselt een nieuwe combinatie aan therapeutische mRNA’s in in lipide-gebaseerde nanodeeltjes (LNP's).
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
press.vib.be | Gunnar De Winter
Gent, 29 November 2024 – We worden steeds vaker geconfronteerd met de gevolgen van klimaatverandering, mislukte oogsten zijn slechts één voorbeeld. Deze uitdagingen moeten op verschillende fronten aangepakt worden, onder meer door planten weerbaar te maken. Onderzoek naar huidmondjes, die je kan beschouwen als de zweetklieren van planten, levert nuttige inzichten op. Het VIB-UGent-team van Prof.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
press.vib.be | Gunnar De Winter
Ghent, 29 November 2024 – We are increasingly confronted with the impacts of climate change, with failed harvests being only one example. Addressing these challenges requires multifaceted approaches, including making plants more resilient. An international research team led by researchers at VIB-UGent has unraveled how the opening and closing of stomata - tiny pores on leaves – is regulated in response to high temperatures and drought.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
blog.vib.be | Gunnar De Winter
Peptides make powerful drugs, but they are difficult to synthesize. The pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson teams up with VIB experts to explore how to harness the biosynthetic creativity of microbes to make peptide mass manufacturing more cost-effective andsustainable. Peptides are taking the therapeutic space by storm.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
blog.vib.be | Gunnar De Winter
If we understand living systems as wholes constructed from parts, can we design new parts or redesign existing ones to build living systems and components according to desired specifications? That is the promise of synthetic biology: (re)design biological building blocks and put them together into a system of your choice. Of course, life is more complicated than that. And yet, the field of synthetic biology has seen remarkable developments in the last decade or two.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
press.vib.be | Gunnar De Winter
Ghent, November 15, 2024 – Understanding how roots grow can help us develop plants that, for example, are more resistant to drought. Research by Prof. Bert De Rybel’s team (VIB-UGent), in collaboration with the VIB Screening Core and Ghent University, uncovers how roots go through a puberty phase, which could have important implications for developing climate-resilient agriculture. Their work appears in Science.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
press.vib.be | Gunnar De Winter
Gent, 15 november 2024 – Als we begrijpen hoe wortels groeien, kunnen we planten ontwikkelen die bijvoorbeeld beter bestand zijn tegen droogte. Onderzoek door het team van prof. Bert De Rybel (VIB-UGent), de VIB Screening Core, en Universiteit Gent onthult hoe wortels de puberteit doormaken, wat zou kunnen leiden tot toepassingen voor klimaatbestendige landbouw. Hun werk verschijnt in Science.
