The ophthalmology department of Ghent University Hospital (UZ Gent) is particularly active in research on retinal disorders responsible for visual impairment that offer the hope of avoiding blindness.
On 19 February 2019, a group of around ten Belgian researchers set off for Antarctica. They will study the effects of global warming and plastic particles in the Southern Ocean.
In September 2016, Focus announced that the Leuven-based R&D company Octinion would shortly be launching the world's first sophisticated, autonomous, high-tech and economically viable strawbe
You have good and bad bacteria. In our intestines alone there are up to 100,000 billion bacteria. But exactly which bacteria are present, and in what numbers, differs according to the individual.
