Calling on its expertise in battling sleeping sickness, Antwerp’s Institute of Tropical Medicine has played a major role in the development of a rapid diagnostic test for sleeping sickness in West and Central Africa, particularly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Researchers connected to the Flemish Institute for Biotechnology identified the protein called FMRP as an important cause of breast cancer spreading to other parts of the body. FMRP’s role in the brain is well known, where its absence leads to Fragile X Syndrome

In the fifties, the met office became one of the first meteorological institutes in the world to get a weather computer. Today, it does much more than just monitoring the weather.

The federal prosecutor is investigating a break-in into the computer system of telecommunications giant Belgacom, the government has revealed. Prime minister Elio Di Rupo promised that “the appropriate steps will be taken if the break-in turns out to be a case of cyber-espionage”.